Proust Questionnaire: Andrea's answers

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On Thu, 05 Jul 12 05:44:22 UTC Andrea (13) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To live restricted, with boundaries, or being thought of as stupid and ignorant.
Where would you like to live?: A liberal, artsy community. Paris, preferably.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Being near nature, being surrounded by books and the music I love, near a few close friends, and culture and the arts at walking distance.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Stubbornness, excessive use of sarcasm, intolerance to those who don't agree
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Kilgore Trout, Calvin or Hobbes, Anastasia Krupnik
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, Abraham Lincoln
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Marie Curie, Michelle Obama, any woman doing something to change SOMETHING.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Anne Shirley, Anastasia Krupnik, Sara Crewe
Your favorite painter?: Anne-Louis Girodet, Francisco Goya, Van Gogh...it's hard to choose....
Your favorite musician?: So hard...Joshua Bell? Edgar Meyer? Yo Yo Ma? Chris Thile?
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence, the ability to understand, compassion, curiosity, ambition...
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence, curiosity, kindness, ambition...
Your favorite virtue?: I have never known a person that only possessed one virtue; why should I have to choose? Although, it'd probably be ambition
Your favorite occupation?: Being outside, thinking, sleeping, reading, making music, listening to music, learning
Who would you have liked to be?: A musician...a violinist. Or maybe an artist.
Your most marked characteristic?: A friendly, shy personality when you first meet me...then a loud, laughing personality when you get to know me....then a superiority complex and sarcastic humor when you become my friend.
What do you most value in your friends?: The ability to stand me when I can get kind of heavy or sarcastic.
What is your principle defect?: Inability to cope with others ignorance; bad temper
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Being regarded as ignorant, being born in a desolate or impoverished area
What would you like to be?: A great classical musician, a literary master, or a ground-breaking scientist..
What is your favorite color?: The color of a field when the windflowers are in bloom, and the sky around it
What is your favorite flower?: The ones that grown in meadows on hot summer days
What is your favorite bird?: I don't know many birds, but probably the robin.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Kurt Vonnegut, Lois Lowry, Ray Bradbury
Who are your favorite poets?: Langston Hughes, Shel Silverstein
Who are your heroes in real life?: My music teachers, Harvey Milk, Brian Greene, even if he isn't well known
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Marie Curie
What are your favorite names?: Ash, Elise, Benjamin, Thomas, Ava
What is it you most dislike?: Ignorance, luck
What historical figures do you most despise?: I do not hate, but feel pity for the writers of the bible, for being so ignorant.
What event in military history do you most admire?: I've never liked the military. And I have never respected past events.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: To succeed in whatever I try
How would you like to die?: Laughing, if I'm being murdered, to spite them. If I'm dying naturally, then quietly, alone, in France.
What is your present state of mind?: Deprived of sleep, haziness of mind, feeling unoriginal and stupid with my mind feeling like syrup
What is your motto?: You think this sucks? Try being a kid in Africa with no food, water, or education.

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