Hugh Grant
Actor
Drinking a pint of London Pride while munching Twiglets and reading about Colin Firth having a critical and box office catastrophe.
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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.
I’m walking down the street angrily muttering to myself and then I run into a neighbor or former coworker and they catch me in this moment of private-public expression. It’s nice to be seen sometimes.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 18 July 2023 source ↗
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Kazuo Ishiguro
Novelist and screenwriter; Nobel laureate in Literature, 2017
Sitting down to a leisurely conversation in an English tearoom with my wife, a friend, or even an interesting stranger. Good cake is essential.
Party, good friends, lots of dancing.
Family, friends, laughter, and music so loud you feel it inside.
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Best to leave things alone. Pull things out, it all comes down. I’m Jenga like that.
Opening day of The Empire Strikes Back, 86th Street Loews.
Enough with the constant smiling.
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