Niamh Cusack
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Lack of compassion and arrogance.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
To be dishonest. Sometimes people have to be dishonest in order not to hurt, but if someone is basically dishonest, that is a different matter.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2010 source ↗
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People who judge other people's actions on their own thought process.
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Dishonesty and being late for appointments.
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Other people’s decorating, if I feel they’ve missed an opportunity and just decorated in that wet-cardboard, modern-grey thing. That’s a life not properly lived.
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To be abandoned.
My inferiority complex.
In the mountains, climbing into beautiful places—anything that has to do with nature. I feel best in nature or near nature. And I was most happy, of course, when I was with my husband and we were in beautiful landscapes.
First of all, to be in love. The second way of being very happy is to be able to get the best out of yourself, whatever it is.
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