Proust Questionnaire: ooinla's answers

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On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:44:49 UTC ooinla (40) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Life without love
Where would you like to live?: In the moment
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be with those I love
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Laziness and procrastination
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Swashbuckling adventurers who fight on behalf of the downtrodden
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Jesus, Galileo, FDR, Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Stephen Hawking
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Marie Curie, Maria Montessori, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harriet Tubman
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Katherine in Taming of the Shrew, Rosalind in As You Like It
Your favorite painter?: Monet
Your favorite musician?: Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Cole Porter
The quality you most admire in a man?: Humor
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence
Your favorite virtue?: Honesty
Your favorite occupation?: Movies
Who would you have liked to be?: Steven Spielberg
Your most marked characteristic?: Transparency
What do you most value in your friends?: Kindness and Honesty
What is your principle defect?: Self doubt leading to laziness
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To go through life with honesty, kindness, compassion and fairness and be robbed of all you've earned
What would you like to be?: A film director
What is your favorite color?: Blue
What is your favorite flower?: The moment of realization
What is your favorite bird?: The dove
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Ray Bradbury
Who are your favorite poets?: Shakespeare, Lennon & McCartney, Paul Simon, Billy Collins
Who are your heroes in real life?: Spielberg, Welles, Jewison, Hughes, Allen
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Marie Curie, Maria Montessori, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harriet Tubman
What are your favorite names?: Meghan and Emerson
What is it you most dislike?: Injustice
What historical figures do you most despise?: Adolf Hitler, Ghengis Khan, Henry VIII, Joseph McCarthy
What event in military history do you most admire?: JFK's patience during the Cuban Missile Crisis, The liberation of the concentration camps in WWII, The American Revolution
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Self-confidence and the ability to dance really well
How would you like to die?: Happy and at home
What is your present state of mind?: Hopeful
What is your motto?: Life is long

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