Terry Gross
Radio interviewer
Their willingness to put up with my endless explanations about why I can’t see them because I’m under deadline.
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What is your greatest fear?
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Identity & self
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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When were you happiest?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
A fixed Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire item asked across its three-decade archive, with independent variants in friendship and profile interviews.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Unselfishness. I like to surround myself with people who are kind and have feelings for others and their problems.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 25 November 2001 source ↗
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John Malkovich
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That they’re kind, trustworthy, smart, and can hear and communicate and aren’t afraid to do so.
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To be taller. I’ve been looking up at certain people all my life. If I was taller, I could look down and see them a lot better.
Selfishness—people who don’t care about others or their feelings and will do or say anything as long as they get what they want.
In Macon, Georgia, during my childhood. I knew everybody there—it was like the whole town was your family. I felt complete there.
Being at peace with God.
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