To my mother for having to bail me out when I was young.
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Guardian, 14 October 2011 source ↗
The question
What do you value most in your friends?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
A fixed Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire item asked across its three-decade archive, with independent variants in friendship and profile interviews.
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View all 100 →It’s hard to narrow it down, because I want them to have a bit of everything—humor, kindness, integrity, intelligence, tolerance (they need lots of that). But if I had to choose just one it would probably be loyalty.
That they don’t die on me.
Their humor and that they are smarter than I, but not by too much.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
British novelist
No man has ever tried to pinch my bottom or lay a hand on me, and they’ve always shown me great respect. There’s a lot of rapists and bad men out there but a lot of decent ones too.
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View profile →I don't believe in discrimination when it comes to animals.
Not having children.
I was at an Aston Villa match and when Villa scored this stranger of a supermodel kissed me.
I like ironing my socks.
I like ironing my socks.
I hated writing and I hated reading.
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