David Chang: What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?

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What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?

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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.

David Chang

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Good TV, good delivery, perfect AC. Literally doing nothing.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 13 September 2019 source ↗

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Ricky Gervais

Playing with a dog. And we’re both drunk.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 August 2017 source ↗

Aretha Franklin

It’s never going to be absolutely perfect. There will always be something you would change if you could.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 November 2003 source ↗

Jane Birkin Singer, songwriter, actor

Christmas with my girls, my brother, my sister, and all the children.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 September 2013 source ↗

Naomi Campbell

These days, it’s good health and peace.

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

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Question What do you fear most? Identity & self

Figuratively doing nothing.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2019 source ↗

Question What trait do you most dislike in other people? Values & belief

Unwillingness to change.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2019 source ↗

Question Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them? Values & belief

My wife, Grace.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2019 source ↗

Question Which trait in yourself do you like least? Identity & self

My intense self-loathing.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2019 source ↗

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