Carly Simon: What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?

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What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?

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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.

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Carly Simon

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The absence of fear, and the recognition that we are all on this ship of fools together. We may in fact go to the big ship’s Art Deco bar and have a glass of champagne, toasting our foibles.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 January 2010 source ↗

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Patti LaBelle

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.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 11 December 2020 source ↗

Bill Moyers

A long summer’s evening on the front porch with my wife, Judith, watching the hawks circling overhead and the sun disappearing through the trees.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 July 2011 source ↗

Dustin Hoffman

When the coffee kicks in early in the morning and I’m on the couch with my dogs, reading the paper.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 February 2009 source ↗

Julie Taymor Theatre and film director

A fall day on the beach with Elliot and my dog, Luna, and the sea, sand, and sky.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 28 October 2022 source ↗

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Question What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy? Time & hindsight

Living in London in the late 60s—setting my hair with beer cans and shopping for shoes in Knightsbridge.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2010 source ↗

Question Which trait in yourself do you like least? Identity & self

Forgetting. Or, worse yet, not recognizing who my real friends are.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2010 source ↗

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