Balancing my inner and outer life.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 28 September 2022 source ↗
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If you could alter one thing about yourself, what would it be?Originally asked
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Kazuo Ishiguro
Novelist and screenwriter; Nobel laureate in Literature, 2017
I always dreamt of having a second stomach I could carry around in a bag, which I could attach to my real stomach when I sat down in restaurants. That way, I could eat a huge amount, never gaining weight.
Malala Yousafzai
Education campaigner; co-founder of the Malala Fund; United Nations Messenger of Peace
I'm trying to be more organized.
I’d like to increase my brain’s computing speed.
My tendency to worry about the future if there’s nothing you can do about it.
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View profile →In my sleep in my 90s, after a great gig.
Being out in a gorgeous natural setting with time to enjoy.
When I’m self-involved or insensitive to others.
As a kid, my summers at camp in the Adirondacks. And as an adult, when I’m onstage.
Dolores Huerta.
That injustice, ignorance, and fascism win.
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