Cooking dinner and hanging out with my kids.
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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.
Pizza and wine after performing for a great Saturday-night crowd on Broadway.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 21 February 2018 source ↗
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The entire family being healthy, being on the set of Barry, and a rainbow trout on my line.
Under sail somewhere with my children, Mavis and Duncan, and my husband, Roderick, with no agenda.
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My sister, who manages to see the positive in any situation.
Impatience. The inability to ever finish a knitting project.
Anything underneath me in water I can’t see to the bottom of.
Their ability to make me laugh from the gut.
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