I would love to have a good memory. I’m at an age when remembering something right away is as good as an orgasm.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 September 2020 source ↗
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If you could alter one thing about yourself, what would it be?Originally asked
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Alice Waters
Chef, restaurateur and food activist
My discomfort with being alone.
Stephen Fry
Actor, writer and broadcaster
My laziness. Not in work-related matters, but social laziness. Thank-you letters, organization, that sort of thing.
Indecisiveness. It can be really annoying, especially when I am out to dinner and can’t decide between the chicken or the fish.
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?
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Dying just a millisecond before I was about to say something I really wanted the people I love to hear.
Sometimes when I’m on a plane, as I often am, the weather is rough and we’re worried about going down. I think: If I hold the hand of the person next to me, I’ll be holding everyone’s hand. Like my dear friend, the late Wilma Mankiller, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, I want to know: I’m going to the other side of the mountain.
Feeling you want someone else’s welfare as much and sometimes more than your own.
Dr Denis Mukwege, because he is to sexualised violence against females what Mandela was to apartheid.
I’m walking down a street in New York, the sun is shining, I’m on my way to see friends who are chosen family—and I’ve just written a couple of pages that I like.
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