Watching my wife and children eat.
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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.
Playing around in my studio by myself, discovering the possibility of new ideas.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 8 January 2019 source ↗
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Yo-Yo Ma
Cellist
Those times when I feel equilibrium, maximum consciousness, and clarity.
Life with no Instagram and no selfies. I am so tired of looking at people staring out of the window of a private plane with a small dog in their laps.
David Lynch
Film director, screenwriter and painter
What do I think it is? A fulfillment of a desire gives you happiness.
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A little more self-confidence wouldn’t hurt.
A world destroyed by science-denying mediocrity.
Sir David Attenborough, John Prendergast.
They can take the piss out of me and it still feels like wisdom and loyalty.
To place faith over facts.
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