Proust Questionnaire: Stephen's answers

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On Sat, 10 Jul 10 23:05:09 UTC Stephen (56) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: a long extended painful illness
Where would you like to live?: Any place I hang my hat is home
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: A summer day off, with no agenda, $100 in my jeans. No obligations & endless possibilities
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: pleasures of the flesh
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: The boys in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Winston Churchill, FDR
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Meryl Streep, Jane Fonda, Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Annie Lennox
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Little Orphan Annie, Jane Eyre, Olive Oyle, Madam Bovery
Your favorite painter?: Mark Rothko
Your favorite musician?: Burt Bacharach
The quality you most admire in a man?: Srength
The quality you most admire in a woman?: nurturing
Your favorite virtue?: discretion
Your favorite occupation?: Architecture, Acting, Singing
Who would you have liked to be?: Fred Astaire
Your most marked characteristic?: Sense of humor
What do you most value in your friends?: Loyalty
What is your principle defect?: the need to be the center of attention
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: being sick
What would you like to be?: famous
What is your favorite color?: Silver
What is your favorite flower?: Bachelor Buttons
What is your favorite bird?: Hummingbird
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Proust, Twain, Dickens, Michael Chabon, Michael Cunningham, David Sedaris
Who are your favorite poets?: Frank O'Hara
Who are your heroes in real life?: I try not to have heros, they only disappoint... but, Ian McKellen
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Elizabeth I, Mae West, Eleanore Roosevelt
What are your favorite names?: Stephen, Etienne, Estaban
What is it you most dislike?: people who feel they are entitled
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler, George W Bush, Stalin
What event in military history do you most admire?: the USA in WW2
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: dance
How would you like to die?: on my 101 birthday, in my sleep
What is your present state of mind?: exalted anxiety
What is your motto?: Never Face The Facts

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