Pizza and wine after performing for a great Saturday-night crowd on Broadway.
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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.
Loud bar, good band, cold beer, ride home.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2012 source ↗
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Close friends, spectacular food, gorgeous weather, and interesting conversation!
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Playing tennis, competing, winning, but also being at home in Spain, in Majorca, with my friends and family.
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Discretion and good cheer.
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