Showing off onstage, with everyone laughing and applauding.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 8 January 2019 source ↗
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What kind of death would you consider a good one?Originally asked
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Gloria Steinem
Writer and feminist organiser
Sometimes when I’m on a plane, as I often am, the weather is rough and we’re worried about going down. I think: If I hold the hand of the person next to me, I’ll be holding everyone’s hand. Like my dear friend, the late Wilma Mankiller, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, I want to know: I’m going to the other side of the mountain.
T Bone Burnett
Musician and record producer
I would like to die in good health, at an old age, in a house on a mountain that looks out over the ocean, dreaming about everyone and everything I have had the impossible good fortune to have loved. Maybe Ralph Stanley is singing “Angel Band.”
Stephen Fry
Actor, writer and broadcaster
Over two weeks, in a pleasant fug of palliative morphine if necessary. Just time to say a cheerful good-bye to everyone.
Terry Gross
Radio interviewer
Swiftly, painlessly, and old.
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They can take the piss out of me and it still feels like wisdom and loyalty.
To place faith over facts.
Sir David Attenborough, John Prendergast.
Playing around in my studio by myself, discovering the possibility of new ideas.
A world destroyed by science-denying mediocrity.
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