Bruno Tonioli
Italian choreographer
Sheer drops, like a precipice.
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What most recently made you cry?
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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When were you happiest?
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Being stuck in a project that’s not challenging me, or true to my nature.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 March 2023 source ↗
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Daphne Guinness
British socialite
Aggression without provocation or consequences.
The current occupant of the White House.
Becoming dickish.
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View profile →Making films exactly how I wanted.
Being hard on myself. I don’t want to pass that on to my daughters, so I’m trying to stop.
Two weeks before shooting – after some of our financing dropped out – when the producers said I had to cut a week’s worth of scenes out of my script. I was on location and away from my daughters [currently in middle and high school] who I felt were needing a mother.
An Elizabeth Peyton painting.
Driving my convertible over the Bay Bridge when I was 18, listening to Thinking of You by Sister Sledge.
To follow your path and not worry about what to do too much; one thing leads to the next, and you wind up where you’re meant to be.
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