Being healthy. Sometimes we don’t know that we’re not healthy because we’re not going to the doctor—like me, when I first discovered I had diabetes years ago.
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What is your greatest fear?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
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.
Listening to my sons play a piano-and-sax duet.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 April 2017 source ↗
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View all 158 →First of all, to be in love. The second way of being very happy is to be able to get the best out of yourself, whatever it is.
Audra McDonald
Singer and actor
Being at home on a Sunday night with my husband, Will, and all of our children, eating chicken tikka masala and naan from our favorite restaurant.
A plate of fettuccine ragù with my kids.
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Their goddamned fucking honesty.
The sewing-machine repairman at the corner of 107th and Broadway.
That I’ll die worrying.
St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto: 8:31 A.M., July 1, 1981; 8:29 A.M., May 4, 1983.
Standing up while eating.
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