Elmore Leonard
Novelist and screenwriter
Does it make a difference? You’re dead.
How would you like to die?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Identity & self
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What do you value most in your friends?
Relationships
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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 final question in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire, repeated verbatim across respondent pages.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Showing off onstage, with everyone laughing and applauding.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 8 January 2019 source ↗
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Helena Bonham Carter
Actor
At the right time, and like my father—utterly without fear or pain, at home, with all whom I love. It was his last lesson as a parent to me.
Diane Keaton
Actor and director
Like? I have no soft spot, fondness, admiration, respect, attraction, or esteem for death. I am not taken with it or infatuated by it. I carry no torch, have no crush, take no shine to the word or action of death. I don’t have the hots for it, and I don’t dig it, either.
Sally Field
Actor
When I’m extremely old during a huge family celebration where everyone is playing games and giving pre-written toasts … to me.
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A world destroyed by science-denying mediocrity.
To place faith over facts.
A little more self-confidence wouldn’t hurt.
They can take the piss out of me and it still feels like wisdom and loyalty.
Playing around in my studio by myself, discovering the possibility of new ideas.
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