Shonda Rhimes: What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?

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What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?

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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.

Shonda Rhimes

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Warm chocolate cake, a gorgeous fire, and Idris Elba. Also, world peace.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 4 October 2017 source ↗

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Ernest Borgnine

Finally, a happy marriage, of now 39 years!

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 February 2011 source ↗

Herman Wouk

Monogamy, with the right lady. (Sheer luck.)

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 October 2012 source ↗

Patti LaBelle

Being healthy. Sometimes we don’t know that we’re not healthy because we’re not going to the doctor—like me, when I first discovered I had diabetes years ago.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 11 December 2020 source ↗

Mel Brooks

Being in a Broadway theater full of people laughing their heads off at one of my shows.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 14 December 2021 source ↗

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Question Which trait in yourself do you like least? Identity & self

My ability to make everything about me.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2017 source ↗

Question What trait do you most dislike in other people? Values & belief

People who feed off of their misery. The whiners and complainers.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2017 source ↗

Question Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them? Values & belief

Obama. He is a man of integrity and nobody seems to have integrity these days.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2017 source ↗

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