Tom Ford: What is your greatest fear?

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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

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Couples who have to be sat side by side at L.A. dinner parties. What is that all about?!

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2020 source ↗

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Margaret Atwood Novelist, poet and critic

That human beings will follow their stupid and greedy side, rather than their smart side, and go down the plughole. We’re circling the rim.

Recorded Helen Bownass, Five Minute Philosopher, Stylist, 15 October 2019 source ↗

DJ Khaled

I fear nothing, except for flying.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2016 source ↗

Romola Garai

Those abduction situations where you’re packed in a bunker for 30 years.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2024 source ↗

Stanley Tucci

Losing one of my children, as there is no greater loss.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2024 source ↗

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Life with no Instagram and no selfies. I am so tired of looking at people staring out of the window of a private plane with a small dog in their laps.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 28 February 2020 source ↗

Question Which living person do you most admire, and why? Values & belief

Gloria Steinem.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2020 source ↗

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