Rachel Maddow: If you could alter one thing about yourself, what would it be?

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If you could alter one thing about yourself, what would it be?

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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.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Rachel Maddow

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I would be a better correspondent. I’m hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 15 March 2012 source ↗

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Isaac Mizrahi

I would care less about what people thought of me.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 5 April 2022 source ↗

Bonnie Raitt Singer and guitarist

Balancing my inner and outer life.

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

Nancy Pelosi

That I would have focused more on languages.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 30 May 2019 source ↗

Naomi Campbell

I’m not going to change anything about myself. I am happy and blessed with what God gave me, and I really have nothing to complain about.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 5 April 2021 source ↗

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Question What do you fear most? Identity & self

Becoming dickish.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2012 source ↗

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

Now. My life is better with every year of living it.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2012 source ↗

Question Which quality in your friends matters most to you? Relationships

Discretion and good cheer.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2012 source ↗

Question What does happiness look like for you when life is going well? Identity & self

Loud bar, good band, cold beer, ride home.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2012 source ↗

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