35 Questions by Marcel Proust
35 Answers by Tania Staykova
1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Doing what I love with people I admire.
2. What is your greatest fear?
Drowning.
3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
My high expectations of others.
4. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Indecisiveness.
5. Which living person do you most admire?
Oprah.
6. What is your greatest extravagance?
High-heeled shoes and handbags.
7. What is your current state of mind?
Hopeful.
8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Playing everything exactly by the rules.
9. On what occasion do you lie?
When my mom asks me about my dating life.
10. What do you most dislike about your appearance?
That I am not 5'8" which is how tall I am inside my head.:)
11. Which living person do you most despise?
Donald Trump.
12. What is the quality you most like in a man?
Attentiveness.
13. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Confidence.
14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
Absolutely.
15, What or who is the greatest love of your life?
Life is the greatest love of my life.
16. When and where were you happiest?
August 16, 1994.
17. Which talent would you most like to have?
Playing the piano.
18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
I would be 3 inches taller.
19. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Moving to the USA when I was 18 years old.
20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
I would love to come back as my beloved Gucci.
21. Where would you most like to live?
New York City, my current home.
22. What is your most treasured possession?
My memory.
23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Being misunderstood.
24. What is your favourite occupation?
Being the champion of ideas and bringing them to life in the most faithful way.
25. What is your most marked characteristic?
My blue eyes.
26. What do you most value in your friends?
Loyalty.
27. Who are your favourite writers?
Oscar Wilde, Jeffrey Eugenedes, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte.
28. Who is your hero of fiction?
Elizabeth Bennett from "Pride and Prejudice".
29. Which historical figure do you most identify with?
Elizabeth Stuart Gardner.
30. Who are your heroes in real life?
My mother and Hillary Clinton.
31. What are your favourite names?
Jonathan, Diana, Jane, Ethan.
32. What is it that you most dislike?
Stupidity.
33. What is your greatest regret?
Not taking a lot of risks in my 20s.
34. How would you like to die?
Quietly in my sleep at the age of 88.
35. What is your motto?
Work hard and be nice to people.