Dolly Parton
American singer-songwriter, actress and businesswoman
Singing onstage—and everyone walking around me saying, “Look how happy she looks.”
How would you like to die?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
A fixed final question in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire, repeated verbatim across respondent pages.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
With a malicious grin that implies I know something you don’t.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 7 January 2022 source ↗
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Hans Zimmer
Film composer
Showing off onstage, with everyone laughing and applauding.
Eugene Levy
Actor and writer
In my sleep. In bed. With a half-eaten egg salad sandwich on my chest.
Gloria Steinem
Writer and feminist organiser
Sometimes when I’m on a plane, as I often am, the weather is rough and we’re worried about going down. I think: If I hold the hand of the person next to me, I’ll be holding everyone’s hand. Like my dear friend, the late Wilma Mankiller, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, I want to know: I’m going to the other side of the mountain.
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View profile →The thought that I might die with unresolved conflicts.
Wow! Like, the way people mess up language. I mean, it makes me crazy, y’know?
Short-term memory.
That they don’t give a tinker’s damn about my celebrity.
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