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.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 18 February 2025 source ↗
So for years I kept calling myself an entrepreneur until one day I realized like, wait a second, this is expired! Like somebody who is an athlete in high school can’t keep calling himself an athlete forever.
I would talk slower. When I hear myself interviewed sometimes it sounds like I’m running an auction.
My discomfort with being alone.
I’d be more patient, which I didn’t consider a virtue until right this moment.
Watching my girls laugh together. It is more short-lived than I’d like, but it does happen!
Gloria Steinem.
Humor. Laughing with my girlfriends is one of my great joys.
On a beach, watching my girls do cartwheels, with a Goombay Smash with a floater on top.
Drowning. The feeling of not being able to take a breath. I’m sure my therapist would have something to say about the deep psychological reasons for it.
Trevor Noah, Ed Koch, Daniel Radcliffe, Hugh Jackman, Carol Burnett, Alice Waters
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