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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Never picking up the check.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2021 source ↗
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View all 202 →Cruelty, and also general rudeness and unkindness. I’ve always told my children: Don’t ever find entertainment in someone else’s discomfort.
Jane Asher
English actress and author
Mental cruelty.
Comparing themselves to other people.
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A Broadway theater filled with nothing but critics.
Being too damned self-absorbed.
Being in a Broadway theater full of people laughing their heads off at one of my shows.
Probably during my childhood growing up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Probably me, but I don’t think I’m supposed to say that!
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