Stephen Fry
Actor, writer and broadcaster
My laziness. Not in work-related matters, but social laziness. Thank-you letters, organization, that sort of thing.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
Originally asked
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.
I would care less about what people thought of me.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 5 April 2022 source ↗
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if your proposed marriage contract has forty-seven pages, my suggestion is you not enter.
Gloria Steinem
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I would love to have a good memory. I’m at an age when remembering something right away is as good as an orgasm.
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