Whoopi Goldberg: What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?

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What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?

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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.

Whoopi Goldberg

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A perfect day is when I can sit outside and listen to an audiobook and watch my family walking around.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 30 September 2015 source ↗

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Luise Rainer

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.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 March 2010 source ↗

Garrison Keillor

To be wildly, desperately, carelessly, nakedly in love, of course. Crazy, obsessive love: brooding, baying at the moon, writing daily missives to the adored. Who wouldn’t want this? Even though the crash is painful.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 September 2009 source ↗

Bob Mackie

A great entrance-making outfit, where everyone oohs and aahs!

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 4 April 2023 source ↗

Yogi Berra Baseball catcher and manager; ten-time World Series winner with the New York Yankees

To relax without being bothered.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2010 source ↗

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Question What trait do you most dislike in other people? Values & belief

When a person is judgmental without realizing that they are the thing they detest in others.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2015 source ↗

Question Which quality in your friends matters most to you? Relationships

Humor and honesty. Realness. No bullshit.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 30 September 2015 source ↗

Question Which trait in yourself do you like least? Identity & self

I can be a huge asshole, not very nice. Doesn’t happen very often, but when it happens, it’s not attractive.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2015 source ↗

Question What do you fear most? Identity & self

I’m most afraid that someday I’m going to be on an airplane and it’s going to be acting the way I don’t want it to.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2015 source ↗

Question If you could alter one thing about yourself, what would it be? Identity & self

I would laugh more. I don’t laugh enough.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 30 September 2015 source ↗

Question Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them? Values & belief

Pope Francis. He’s going with the original program. He may not be perfect, but he’s trying.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2015 source ↗

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