Terry Gross
Radio interviewer
Their willingness to put up with my endless explanations about why I can’t see them because I’m under deadline.
What do you value most in your friends?
Question
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Identity & self
Question
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
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.
Humor, perspective, and selective honesty.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 3 April 2017 source ↗
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Danielle Steel
Novelist
Loyalty, kindness, honesty, trustworthiness, reliability.
Their loving forbearance.
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View profile →I would be a better, faster, and more faithful writer of letters and e-mails, and returner of phone calls.
Being at home with Brian and the dogs.
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