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If you could alter one thing about yourself, what would it be?

53 answers answered between 2001 and 2025 one of 5 in The Proust Questionnaire

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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

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Aung San Suu Kyi Leader of the National League for Democracy; Nobel Peace Prize laureate; State Counsellor of Myanmar, 2016–2021
Even if we do not achieve perfect peace on earth, because perfect peace is not of this earth, common endeavours to gain peace will unite individuals and nations in trust and friendship and help to make our human community safer and kinder.
Recorded Oslo City Hall, The Nobel Foundation, 16 June 2012 source ↗
I wish I were braver, although I try. I work too hard and don’t play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough “fun.”
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 26 June 2012 source ↗
Kazuo Ishiguro Novelist and screenwriter; Nobel laureate in Literature, 2017
I always dreamt of having a second stomach I could carry around in a bag, which I could attach to my real stomach when I sat down in restaurants. That way, I could eat a huge amount, never gaining weight.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 9 March 2023 source ↗
Melissa Etheridge Singer, songwriter and guitarist
Again, not gonna change anything about myself. I’ve really learned to appreciate everything. Okay, maybe I’d be taller. How about that?
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 5 September 2023 source ↗

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