Willem Dafoe
Actor
A crippling accident.
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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How would you like to die?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What do you value most in your friends?
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
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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.
A world destroyed by science-denying mediocrity.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2019 source ↗
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Lily Tomlin
Comedian and actor
Being onstage and forgetting why I’m there.
Roger Ebert
Film critic
Many readers have informed me that it is a tragic and dreary business to go into death without faith. I don’t feel that way. “Faith” is neutral. All depends on what is believed in. I have no desire to live forever. The concept frightens me. I am 69, have had cancer, will die sooner than most of those reading this. That is in the nature of things.
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View profile →Playing around in my studio by myself, discovering the possibility of new ideas.
To place faith over facts.
Showing off onstage, with everyone laughing and applauding.
Sir David Attenborough, John Prendergast.
They can take the piss out of me and it still feels like wisdom and loyalty.
A little more self-confidence wouldn’t hurt.
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