Danielle Steel
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Loyalty, kindness, honesty, trustworthiness, reliability.
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
A fixed Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire item asked across its three-decade archive, with independent variants in friendship and profile interviews.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
That they want to be with me.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 20 September 2016 source ↗
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Their willingness to have me as a friend.
It’s hard to narrow it down, because I want them to have a bit of everything—humor, kindness, integrity, intelligence, tolerance (they need lots of that). But if I had to choose just one it would probably be loyalty.
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View profile →I don’t care as long as Jeffrey and I go together and we end up in a big suite with a view of the ocean.
Pain. I told Jeffrey that if I have a really bad headache just pull the plug.
Lying on the sofa watching old episodes of Law & Order all day.
I worry that if I don’t challenge myself professionally I’ll lie on the sofa and watch old episodes of Law & Order all day.
Sundays in Paris with Jeffrey. We go to the Sunday market, make a nice lunch, drink a big bottle of Burgundy, and then take a long delicious nap. Heaven.
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