In my sleep. And I don’t think about it. It’ll be what it’ll be.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 19 February 2013 source ↗
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What kind of death would you consider a good one?Originally asked
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John Lewis
U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1987–2020; Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 1963–1966
I don't want to die. I don't think I'm going to die…but we all have to die. Since I do, I hope I live on in the hearts and minds of people.
John Mellencamp
Singer and songwriter
I need a long and lingering death to make sure that I have time to have a deathbed conversion.
Joan Rivers
Comedian
Coming offstage after a five-minute standing ovation, falling into the arms of my lover, and having the doctor look at me and say, “This is impossible! She looks much too young to go!”
Pedro Almodóvar
Film director
Like John Huston, after shooting The Dead.
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I am the way I am, and I can’t change that. Why even think about it?
My wife going on The Real Housewives of New York City.
Self-importance, arrogance.
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