Losing my mind.
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Being stuck in a project that’s not challenging me, or true to my nature.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 March 2023 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 256 →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.
Falling onstage…or anywhere.
Rita Moreno
Actor, singer and dancer
The thought that I might die with unresolved conflicts.
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View profile →Two weeks before shooting – after some of our financing dropped out – when the producers said I had to cut a week’s worth of scenes out of my script. I was on location and away from my daughters [currently in middle and high school] who I felt were needing a mother.
To follow your path and not worry about what to do too much; one thing leads to the next, and you wind up where you’re meant to be.
An Elizabeth Peyton painting.
Making films exactly how I wanted.
A magazine editor like Diana Vreeland.
To a girl we were mean to in first grade.
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