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On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:59:50 UTC Ellen answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- To be without books.
- Where would you like to live?
- U.S.
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- To live by the ocean surrounded by books and the ones I love.
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- Procrastination, feeling inadequate.
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Tom Joad
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Thomas Jefferson
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- Madeleine Albright
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Jane Eyre, Tess
- Your favorite painter?
- Jackson Pollock
- Your favorite musician?
- Sting
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Confidence without cockiness.
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- The ability to fit into any given situation.
- Your favorite virtue?
- Patience
- Your favorite occupation?
- Reading, painting
- Who would you have liked to be?
- Artist
- Your most marked characteristic?
- The need to feel accepted.
- What do you most value in your friends?
- That they want to be my friend.
- What is your principle defect?
- Impatience
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- To never have learned to read.
- What would you like to be?
- An artist.
- What is your favorite color?
- Green
- What is your favorite flower?
- Gardenia
- What is your favorite bird?
- Owl
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, Capote, Runyon
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Dickenson
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- Anyone who puts their safety on the line for others.
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- What are your favorite names?
- Bartmann, Lucius, Clara and Grace
- What is it you most dislike?
- Ignorance
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- Oppressors
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- The bravery of the Native Americans.
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- To sing.
- How would you like to die?
- Knowing that those I love know how much I loved them.
- What is your present state of mind?
- Frustration
- What is your motto?
- Screw it.
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