Catherine O’Hara: What is your idea of perfect happiness?

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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.

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Catherine O’Hara

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I think happiness is the absence of all things negative.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 November 2013 source ↗

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Megan Rapinoe United States international footballer, 2006–2023

“Until we are all free, we are none of us free.” —Emma Lazarus. Perfect happiness exists only in my imagination at the moment.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 July 2020 source ↗

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Basketball player and author

Being surrounded by my friends and family. Just listening to them interacting, laughing, sharing. It is the culmination of everything I could have hoped for.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 27 August 2020 source ↗

Laurie Metcalf

Pizza and wine after performing for a great Saturday-night crowd on Broadway.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 21 February 2018 source ↗

Tina Fey

A glass of wine at sunset on Fire Island. / No homework.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 May 2011 source ↗

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They’re wonderful people who seem to like me!

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