Being told I’m a very good friend.
Nick Levine, 50 Questions, AnOther, 10 May 2023 source ↗
The question
What do you value most in your friends?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
A fixed Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire item asked across its three-decade archive, with independent variants in friendship and profile interviews.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Being told I’m a very good friend.
Nick Levine, 50 Questions, AnOther, 10 May 2023 source ↗
The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.
I don’t care who you are on the planet. You need other people to be able to help get you where you want to go, and help get you to learn the things that you want to learn, and participate in the things you want to participate in.
It’s hard to narrow it down, because I want them to have a bit of everything—humor, kindness, integrity, intelligence, tolerance (they need lots of that). But if I had to choose just one it would probably be loyalty.
Unselfishness. I like to surround myself with people who are kind and have feelings for others and their problems.
That episode of Succession, probably because it reminded me of my dad.
Also, having a great team around you is so important. People that you can talk to and who work hard as well, and who you trust and you can have fun with—that’s really important.
I like collecting rocks,” she smiles. “I’m obsessed with them. I don’t pick up any old rock; it has to have some kind of interest.
Anyone who is a carer.
A Josef Albers painting.
I would edit out all the times I smoked a cigarette.
Hans Zimmer, Rita Moreno, Alexander Armstrong, Julie Taymor, Keith Richards, Whoopi Goldberg
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