Dolly Parton
American singer-songwriter, actress and businesswoman
A big loaded baked potato and a good book with time to eat it and read it.
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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.
Loud bar, good band, cold beer, ride home.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2012 source ↗
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Elmore Leonard
Novelist and screenwriter
Being with my best friend, who’s a girl.
Eugene Levy
Actor and writer
Devouring an egg salad sandwich with the salt, pepper, and mayo in exactly the right proportion.
Being surrounded by friends and family.
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Discretion and good cheer.
I would be a better correspondent. I’m hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.
Becoming dickish.
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