Family, friends, laughter, and music so loud you feel it inside.
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What is your greatest fear?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Identity & self
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
No contest: seeing my grandchildren enjoying each other.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 30 May 2019 source ↗
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Audra McDonald
Singer and actor
Being at home on a Sunday night with my husband, Will, and all of our children, eating chicken tikka masala and naan from our favorite restaurant.
Elmore Leonard
Novelist and screenwriter
Being with my best friend, who’s a girl.
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Discrimination, for any reason.
I’m not into self-deploring.
The current occupant of the White House.
My husband, Paul, who is an enabler of the exuberance of his wife and five kids.
That I would have focused more on languages.
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