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Loyalty, kindness, honesty, trustworthiness, reliability.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 July 2012 source ↗
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Elmore Leonard
Novelist and screenwriter
That they get it.
Pelé
Brazilian footballer; three-time World Cup winner
Loyalty. Most of my friends have been around me for decades.
Rita Moreno
Actor, singer and dancer
That they don’t give a tinker’s damn about my celebrity.
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View profile →Losing another child. (I lost one of my sons to suicide when he was 19.)
Peacefully, in good physical health, sound of mind, still active, at a great age, with my children around me.
Not always standing up for myself enough.
My agent Mort Janklow, Sidney Poitier, and Barbara Walters.
I wish I were braver, although I try. I work too hard and don’t play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough “fun.”
The first 10 years of my marriage, when my children were small.
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