My tendency to worry about the future if there’s nothing you can do about it.
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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.
My dyslexia. Or my inability to learn another language.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 13 August 2018 source ↗
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Melissa Etheridge
Singer, songwriter and guitarist
Again, not gonna change anything about myself. I’ve really learned to appreciate everything. Okay, maybe I’d be taller. How about that?
Gloria Steinem
Writer and feminist organiser
I would love to have a good memory. I’m at an age when remembering something right away is as good as an orgasm.
Derek Sivers
Founder of CD Baby; author of Anything You Want
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.
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The delivery room when my children and grandchildren were born.
Being able to share a confidence.
The entire family being healthy, being on the set of Barry, and a rainbow trout on my line.
The inability to listen.
I can be pedantic at times.
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