Which quality in your friends matters most to you?

65 answers answered between 2001 and 2026 one of 5 in The Proust Questionnaire

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Read by field Everyone Arts and letters 54 Politics and public life 5 Business and finance 2 Sport 4

Read by age Any age Before thirty 2 In their thirties 1 In their sixties 6 Seventy and beyond 10

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Danielle Steel Novelist

Loyalty, kindness, honesty, trustworthiness, reliability.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 July 2012 source ↗

Terry Gross Radio interviewer

Their willingness to put up with my endless explanations about why I can’t see them because I’m under deadline.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 September 2012 source ↗

Gayle King Broadcaster

The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 5 July 2016 source ↗

Sally Mann Photographer

Knowing when to show up and when to go home.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 2 March 2018 source ↗

Hans Zimmer Film composer

They can take the piss out of me and it still feels like wisdom and loyalty.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 8 January 2019 source ↗

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