Proust Questionnaire: Maria Patenaude's answers

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On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:31:57 UTC Maria Patenaude (29) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be utterly unloved; disliked by everyone, including yourself.
Where would you like to live?: Somewhere suburban; between city and country, and near both.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To have someone to love, work that I enjoy, and time to daydream.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: I tend to be either overworked or abysmally lazy; balance is difficult.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Eddie Dean, Mal Reynolds, Jacob Black, Jason Bourne (movie, not book)
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Alexander the Great, Anne Frank, Queen Elizabeth I
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Teachers, doctors, mothers, and Michelle Kwan.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: River Tam, Ellen Ripley, Hermione Granger, Rose Tyler, Violet Baudelaire
Your favorite painter?: Shiori Matsumoto
Your favorite musician?: Amanda Palmer
The quality you most admire in a man?: Honesty.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Strength.
Your favorite virtue?: Empathy.
Your favorite occupation?: Singing, writing, creating.
Who would you have liked to be?: An athlete. Particularly a figure skater or a gymnast. Possibly a ballerina. Strength and grace.
Your most marked characteristic?: A love of learning that is often mistaken for a know-it-all attitude.
What do you most value in your friends?: Honesty, integrity, and their individual interests which bring variety into my life.
What is your principle defect?: Laziness. Also a certain self-imposed limitation.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To have been born deaf. Music is an enormous part of who I am.
What would you like to be?: Stronger, less cynical.
What is your favorite color?: Lilac, silver... most shades of purple and grey.
What is your favorite flower?: Sterling rose.
What is your favorite bird?: Peacock.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, Jaida Jones, Jane Austen
Who are your favorite poets?: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Robert Frost, Sylvia Plath
What are your favorite names?: Alexander and all of its derivations; it means Man's Defender. Also, Miranda... no real reason.
What is it you most dislike?: Being in pain.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler, Rasputin
What event in military history do you most admire?: Kennedy's handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis; war was averted, and I don't admire war.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Telekinesis.
How would you like to die?: Accomplished as a writer, beloved by my family.
What is your present state of mind?: I'm being lazy in neglecting my studies to answer this.
What is your motto?: I suck at life, but I'm wicked cool.

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