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The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I cut people off a lot when I talk. It’s a terrible habit.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2020 source ↗
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View all 243 →My default will always be to go for the worst-case scenario and that is something that I am unlearning.
The boozing. I started on rum as a child.
The tendency to withdraw into myself.
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A world where greed rules.
At a function for the True Colors Fund, where formerly homeless gay and transgender kids were telling their stories. It was heartbreaking.
Two-faced phony-baloneys.
I’ve constantly been changing myself my whole life. I am what you would call “a piece of work” in progress.
Long walks with my husband. Being with my family. Making music, and writing when songs just fall together. And maybe a cannoli. Just one.
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