Sally Field
Actor
I’d be more patient, which I didn’t consider a virtue until right this moment.
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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.
I would like to be less impulsive.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 27 June 2013 source ↗
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Patti Smith
Musician, poet and photographer
I would love to have a better sense of physical balance.
To be taller. I’ve been looking up at certain people all my life. If I was taller, I could look down and see them a lot better.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Novelist and screenwriter; Nobel laureate in Literature, 2017
I always dreamt of having a second stomach I could carry around in a bag, which I could attach to my real stomach when I sat down in restaurants. That way, I could eat a huge amount, never gaining weight.
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The ability to be themselves rather than hiding behind a mask.
I honestly don’t have a particular fear. We must live life without limits, and fear can become a limit.
I don’t like false or opportunistic people.
I’m defined as a very strong woman. I don’t identify myself with a specific figure, but I do greatly admire people who manage to persevere with humility through great difficulties.
Happiness is a journey that depends solely on ourselves. We should be grateful to life because so much that it has in store for us will be marvelous and we have the good fortune to live it.
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