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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Aung San Suu Kyi Leader of the National League for Democracy; Nobel Peace Prize laureate; State Counsellor of Myanmar, 2016–2021

Even if we do not achieve perfect peace on earth, because perfect peace is not of this earth, common endeavours to gain peace will unite individuals and nations in trust and friendship and help to make our human community safer and kinder.

Recorded Oslo City Hall, The Nobel Foundation, 16 June 2012 source ↗

George Saunders Short-story writer and novelist

I’d like to have a more generous, less anxious mind.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 25 January 2023 source ↗

Jane Fonda

My inability to have a long-term intimate relationship.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 20 October 2009 source ↗

Antonio Banderas

The age. I would like to be 30 years old now.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 12 December 2019 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 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 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 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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