I’d stop saying yes to inessential requests.
Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 18 September 2006 source ↗
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?Originally asked
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Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
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If I could change one thing about myself, it would be to change the idea that I should change something about myself.
My dyslexia. Or my inability to learn another language.
Barack Obama
44th President of the United States, 2009–2017; United States Senator from Illinois 2005–2008
I deeply regret not having learned a musical instrument. And I regret not having focused more on Spanish when I was studying it in school. I would love to be able to speak Spanish fluently and play an instrument.
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View profile →Anonymous. She’s working to make the planet greener.
Well, probably this big sack of poetry.
In 1972, by Farley Mowat, after I’d had a modest success: “Now you’re a target, and people will shoot at you.” Which is not about how to write, but about some of the consequences of having done so.
Can't pick and choose, it's bad luck.
Begrudging mean-spiritedness.
Of a painless disease, with a month’s warning, on a spring day, with some good news in hand.
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