When they ruin my story because they think theirs is better, so butt in before I’ve finished mine.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Actually, I dislike dealing with schedules and logistics—mine and others’.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2010 source ↗
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Ghosting, where you are mid-conversation with someone and they disappear off the face of the planet.
Lack of empathy.
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View profile →Laziness, wasting time. I’d like to be able to make films faster.
I think you can strive to attain it, but be realistic about the outcome. In the meantime, I find I might be experiencing it through flashes or brief moments in love and art, and at times just being alive.
When my friends and I were making Mean Streets, 1973.
First of all, I’d like to stop complaining—I’m beginning to annoy myself. I would like to learn to read faster, however. Again, the rest I’ve learned to live with.
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