Alfre Woodard: What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?

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What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?

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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Alfre Woodard

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Under sail somewhere with my children, Mavis and Duncan, and my husband, Roderick, with no agenda.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 26 August 2022 source ↗

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Scottie Pippen

Cooking dinner and hanging out with my kids.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 25 October 2021 source ↗

Ricky Gervais

Playing with a dog. And we’re both drunk.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 August 2017 source ↗

Lily Tomlin Comedian and actor

Filling out this Proust Questionnaire. I try to be in the moment.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 June 2022 source ↗

Carly Simon

The absence of fear, and the recognition that we are all on this ship of fools together. We may in fact go to the big ship’s Art Deco bar and have a glass of champagne, toasting our foibles.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 January 2010 source ↗

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Question Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them? Values & belief

My dear friend Eve Plotkin, supervising attorney at the N.Y. Legal Aid Society, head of the Family Law Unit for 25 years.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2022 source ↗

Question What trait do you most dislike in other people? Values & belief

Inefficiency. Whiners.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2022 source ↗

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