Well, I’m always right.
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Laziness and procrastination.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2010 source ↗
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Comparing myself to other people.
I’m a bit of a hoarder.
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View profile →Serially telling endless boring jokes and sexism and racism and homophobia (they often go together).
Sister Alice Marie Quinn, who runs St. Vincent Meals on Wheels in Los Angeles.
To sit by a clear river on a warm day in early July with the smell of cut grass in the air.
I remember thinking, when I was in my early 30s, that this is the best age to be, and I still believe your 30s are a wonderful time. But I think I am pretty happy now.
Their ability to open a bottle of wine.
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