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The Proust Questionnaire, appropriated by James Lipton and Vanity Fair – how could I resist?

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
   When my ambitions and actions align with the greater cosmic ideals.
2. What is your greatest fear?
   Death – that’s easy enough.
3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
   Bitchiness. I’ll admit it now – there is little chance that I haven’t spoken badly of you behind your back.
4. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
   It varies with each person.
5. Which living person do you most admire?
   Pastor Kong Hee, which, coming from me, is strange.
6. What is your greatest extravagance?
   Procrastination.
7. What is your current state of mind?
   Too small to adequately respond.
8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
   Good looks.
9. On what occasion do you lie?
   When asked, “How are you?”
10. What do you most dislike about your appearance?
    My waistline.
11. Which living person do you most despise?
    Anyone who bullies.
12. What is the quality you most like in a man?
    Gentleness.
13. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
    Self-deprecating humour.
14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
    ‘Fuck’ – even once is too many for a person who wants to eliminate it from her vocabulary.
15. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
    Jesus, as doi as it sounds.
16. When and where were you happiest?
    I cannot remember – I take my moments of brief happiness for granted.
17. Which talent would you most like to have?
    Wit, as well as the gift of languages – I would like to charm in many tongues.
18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
    The belief that I am always right… Or closer to being right than others.
19. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
    My give-receive relationships with Vanessa, Christopher, Joachim and Valerie.
20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, who or what would it be?
    Definitely myself.
21. Where would you most like to live?
    Paris, San Francisco, or Seoul.
22. What is your most treasured possession?
    My Roger Federer cap.
23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
    When I have nothing left for which to live.
24. What is your favourite occupation?
    Wedding planner.
25. What is your most marked characteristic?
    I look unapproachable.
26. What do you most value in your friends?
    How they seem to like me more than I like myself.
27. Who are your favourite writers?
    Jon Favreau; the writers behind Brothers & Sisters and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
28. Who is your hero of fiction?
    Fitzwilliam Darcy, Jughead Jones and Tintin.
29. Which historical figure do you most identify with?
    I don’t know.
30. Who are your heroes in real life?
    JPII, although I must acknowledge John Cusack’s answer.
31. What are your favourite names?
    Andrea, Daniel, Dimitri, Kate, Obi-Wan.
32. What is it that you most dislike?
    Homophobia, racism, vanity, bias, irresponsibility, inefficiency, bigotry, lizards, bad manners, fake accents, people reading over my shoulder – all of which bug me equally.
33. What is your greatest regret?
    Nothing, really.
34. How would you like to die?
    Conveniently and without fuss.
35. What is your motto?
    Sometimes, ‘What would Jesus do?’

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