Gayle King
Broadcaster
I know we all have to die, but when my time comes, I’d rather it not be because a goose flew into the engine of a plane I’m on.
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Identity & self
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
A world where greed rules.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2020 source ↗
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Judy Blume
Novelist
That we’re going down the tubes as a country (make that the whole world).
Rosie Jones
British comedian and actress
Not being liked.
Sally Mann
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The loss of a child.
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Two-faced phony-baloneys.
Aside from my mom, my husband, and my mother-in-law, Gloria Steinem, Dorothy Pitman Hughes, and RBG.
At a function for the True Colors Fund, where formerly homeless gay and transgender kids were telling their stories. It was heartbreaking.
I cut people off a lot when I talk. It’s a terrible habit.
Long walks with my husband. Being with my family. Making music, and writing when songs just fall together. And maybe a cannoli. Just one.
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