Proust Questionnaire: Elliott Hemp's answers

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On Mon, 15 Feb 16 16:09:58 UTC Elliott Hemp (23) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To find yourself needed by nobody in your life.
Where would you like to live?: In a theatre commune, in a big house by a lake.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To receive praise for an outstanding performance.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: An inability to express true enjoyment or excitement with total sincerity.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: David Martin and Tigerman.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Frederick Nietzche and Piotr Tchaikovsky.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Yazmina Reza.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Becky Sharpe, and any who bear resemblance to her.
Your favorite painter?: Isabella Salvador.
Your favorite musician?: Motoi Sakuraba
The quality you most admire in a man?: An unabashed interest in others.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: A devilish streak.
Your favorite virtue?: Wit, charm, presence.
Your favorite occupation?: Dancing with myself.
Who would you have liked to be?: David Bowie.
Your most marked characteristic?: A silliness which escapes in strange ways.
What do you most value in your friends?: Philosophical disposition - nothing frustrates more than permanent small talk.
What is your principle defect?: A judgmental face.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To have no-one in the world who is able to understand you.
What would you like to be?: More easily satisfied with simplicity.
What is your favorite color?: Orange - though I could be tempted with red.
What is your favorite flower?: The dandelion - a symbol of effortlessly spreading joy.
What is your favorite bird?: The heron.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Guy Adams, Carlos Ruiz Zafon and Donna Tartt, though this changes all the time.
Who are your favorite poets?: Philip Larkin, Wilfred Owen and Lenni Sanders - not that I'd ever tell her that.
Who are your heroes in real life?: Philip Ridley, James Corden and Neil Manson.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Anita Roddick.
What are your favorite names?: Shaw, Gavin, Conor.
What is it you most dislike?: Not fulfilling my own expectations.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Josef Stalin.
What event in military history do you most admire?: Christmas football in World War One.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Light-coloured eyes.
How would you like to die?: As the victim of a locked room murder mystery.
What is your present state of mind?: Building up to a hopeless confession of love.
What is your motto?: Take what you want, and then pay for it.

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