Proust Questionnaire: Bron Blackwell's answers

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On Sun, 03 Jan 16 22:13:19 UTC Bron Blackwell (37) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Being without a significant other for the rest of my life
Where would you like to live?: The Western World, preferably the USA
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To always learn new things, to travel, to have good health and always be close to my parents and handful of good friends both new and old. A museum nearby too and an endless supply of Coke Zero
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Over-eating
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Don Vito Corleone, James Bond, Tyler Durden (Fight Club), Police Inspector Harry Callahan, Inspector Jacques Clouseau (Pink Panther Series)
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Marilyn Monroe, Nelson Mandela, Charles de Gaulle, Coco Chanel, Leo Tolstoy, Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My mother and grandmother! And the women in my family.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Scarlett O'Hara, Holly Golightly, Clarice Starling, Madeline, Lady Chatterley
Your favorite painter?: Monet
Your favorite musician?: Beethoven
The quality you most admire in a man?: Good manners and morals
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Independence and beauty
Your favorite virtue?: Curiosity
Your favorite occupation?: Writing
Who would you have liked to be?: A film director in Hollywood
Your most marked characteristic?: stubborn tenacity
What do you most value in your friends?: flexibility
What is your principle defect?: perfectionism
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To die alone
What would you like to be?: Free to pursue my own hobbies and interests
What is your favorite color?: violet
What is your favorite flower?: Rose
What is your favorite bird?: Congo Peacock
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Albert Camus, Aldous Huxley, Jean Paul Sartre, Ayn Rand, Ian Fleming, Chinua Achebe
Who are your favorite poets?: Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Frost, Shel Silverstein, Lewis Carroll
Who are your heroes in real life?: My mother, Condi Rice
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Mother Theresa, Anne Frank, Margaret Thatcher
What are your favorite names?: Pepi, Petronilla, Clarke, Winston
What is it you most dislike?: being rushed
What historical figures do you most despise?: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Osama Bin Laden, Kim Jong-Il, Saddam Hussein
What event in military history do you most admire?: The Allied invasion on D-Day 1944, WWII.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: To never age and live to 100
How would you like to die?: with a to do list in my pocket and holding the hand of someone I love
What is your present state of mind?: Feeling Blessed
What is your motto?: Never, Ever Give Up

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