Under sail somewhere with my children, Mavis and Duncan, and my husband, Roderick, with no agenda.
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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.
Cuddling in bed on a Sunday morning with the man I love. Also, applause and standing ovations.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 11 June 2018 source ↗
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View all 158 →My kids are in the house. I’ve been gardening in my vegetable garden. I have absolutely zero obligations or calls to return. Now I’m fixing dinner with music playing and having a glass of wine.
A walk on the Golden Strand beach in County Mayo, on the West Coast of Ireland.
Drinks on the deck at sunset.
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View profile →Thinking that I am less-than. That thinking is cunning, baffling, and insidious, and I must guard against it every hour of every day.
Mean-spiritedness and the inability to set and respect boundaries.
Leontyne Price gives me life. She broke racial barriers with inimitable poise, grace, and excellence, as well as unbelievable focus and vision.
Thinking that I am not enough or not beautiful the way I am. That thinking is super-dangerous.
Being homeless.
At the SAG awards in 2016. I remember going into that night saying to myself, “I might not be here again; let me be fully in the moment.” The cast of Orange Is the New Black won the acting-ensemble award for the second year in a row, and I was there with a man I truly loved. That night was everything I had always dreamed about.
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