To be taller. I’ve been looking up at certain people all my life. If I was taller, I could look down and see them a lot better.
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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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.
I would laugh more. I don’t laugh enough.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 30 September 2015 source ↗
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Kazuo Ishiguro
Novelist and screenwriter; Nobel laureate in Literature, 2017
I always dreamt of having a second stomach I could carry around in a bag, which I could attach to my real stomach when I sat down in restaurants. That way, I could eat a huge amount, never gaining weight.
I’ve constantly been changing myself my whole life. I am what you would call “a piece of work” in progress.
Carrie Fisher
Actor and writer
My inability to have romantic relationships.
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I can be a huge asshole, not very nice. Doesn’t happen very often, but when it happens, it’s not attractive.
I’m most afraid that someday I’m going to be on an airplane and it’s going to be acting the way I don’t want it to.
A perfect day is when I can sit outside and listen to an audiobook and watch my family walking around.
When a person is judgmental without realizing that they are the thing they detest in others.
Pope Francis. He’s going with the original program. He may not be perfect, but he’s trying.
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