Proust Questionnaire: Britta Bandit's answers

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On Tue, 01 Nov 11 19:40:53 UTC Britta Bandit (30) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be helpless. I think almost any situation can be made better if you are empowered. But to be in a situation with no power at all would be the absolute misery. Powerlessness.
Where would you like to live?: Somewhere tropical, near a large body of water and mountains.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To dance and enjoy music and be with the people I love, enjoying the decadence of this beautiful planet.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Eating. I love to indulge my sense of taste, but sometimes I overdo it.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Edmond Dantes from The Count of Monte Cristo, Yuri Zhivago from Dr. Zhivago, Atticus Finch from To Kill A Mockingbird, and Rhett Butler from Gone with the Wind
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Cleopatra, Catherine the Great, Simone de Beauvoir, Frida Kahlo, Katherine Dunham, Margaret Sanger, Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, Joseph Campbell
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Deja Mitchell
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Astrid Magnussen from White Oleander, Athena from The Witch of Portobello, Offred from The Handmaid's Tale, Eva Luna from Eva Luna, and Elizabeth Bennet from Pride & Prejudice
Your favorite painter?: Gustav Klimt, Pablo Picasso and Vincent van Gogh
Your favorite musician?: Of all time: Beethoven, Bach and Mozart. Last 100 yrs: Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jeff Buckley, Tom Waits, Ani DiFranco
The quality you most admire in a man?: Honesty, Intelligence, Passion
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Honesty, Intelligence, Passion
Your favorite virtue?: Honesty
Your favorite occupation?: Dancing and Writing
Who would you have liked to be?: A Dancer or an Actress...or a Veterinarian but I'm allergic to cats.
Your most marked characteristic?: Over-exuberance.
What do you most value in your friends?: Honesty and Loyalty
What is your principle defect?: Sometimes I think I talk too much or share too much.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To loose my loved ones and/or my freedom.
What would you like to be?: Myself, I like me.
What is your favorite color?: Purple
What is your favorite flower?: Star-gazer Lily
What is your favorite bird?: Macaw
Who are your favorite prose writers?: At the moment, Paulo Coelho, Isabel Allende, Margaret Atwood, Janet Fitch and Adrian Stumpp
Who are your favorite poets?: Sharon Olds, Margaret Atwood, T.S. Eliot, Glaway Kinnell
Who are your heroes in real life?: Deja Mitchell
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Cleopatra, Catherine the Great, Simone de Beauvoir, Frida Kahlo, Katherine Dunham, Margaret Sanger, Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham
What are your favorite names?: Britta
What is it you most dislike?: Intolerance, Small-mindedness, Blind Patriotism, Dogma
What historical figures do you most despise?: Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Augustine of Hippo, Paris Hilton
What event in military history do you most admire?: The American Revolution
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: The ability to be a good teacher.
How would you like to die?: After a long full life of making each moment count.
What is your present state of mind?: Bored.
What is your motto?: Life is a poem, live out the metaphors.

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