What is your idea of perfect happiness?

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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Audra McDonald said elsewhere, not written here
Being at home on a Sunday night with my husband, Will, and all of our children, eating chicken tikka masala and naan from our favorite restaurant.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 23 August 2023 source ↗

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Being healthy. Sometimes we don’t know that we’re not healthy because we’re not going to the doctor—like me, when I first discovered I had diabetes years ago.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 11 December 2020 source ↗
I’ve discovered that I have no happiness other than my dogs’. If they’re happy, I’m happy. That sounds like something my mother used to say about her children, which I always thought was slightly manipulative and way overstated. I was wrong.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 5 April 2022 source ↗
A calm and peaceful mind, landing a joke, being the name right after “And the winner is…”
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 19 August 2024 source ↗

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