I wish I always had the right word in the right moment at the right time and not two hours later in my car going home.
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Originally asked
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.
A little more self-confidence wouldn’t hurt.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 8 January 2019 source ↗
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Robert De Niro
Actor
I am the way I am, and I can’t change that. Why even think about it?
Derek Sivers
Founder of CD Baby; author of Anything You Want
So for years I kept calling myself an entrepreneur until one day I realized like, wait a second, this is expired! Like somebody who is an athlete in high school can’t keep calling himself an athlete forever.
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View profile →To place faith over facts.
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.
A world destroyed by science-denying mediocrity.
Sir David Attenborough, John Prendergast.
Showing off onstage, with everyone laughing and applauding.
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