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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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Danielle Steel Novelist
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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