The Proust Questions

What is your most marked characteristic?
Compassion for others and animals, drive and my sense of humour.

What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Getting in Brentstreet, getting my dance teachers diploma and winning Most Promising Teacher of the Year, becoming an Account Manager at 21. But really I think these things are all pretty mundane... i think the biggest achievement is yet to come.

When and where were you happiest?
I'm a happy person, but right now I'm as happy as ever.

What is your greatest regret?
I dont really indulge in regrets. Or maybe its simply that I dont have any worth mentioning right now. Ask me again in 10 years!

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Feeling safe and feeling confident about your body, relationship, friends and career.

What is your most treasured possession?
My boyfriend - but he's not really a possession.

Where would you like to live?
Florence or Tuscany.

What is your greatest fear?
Not having my health

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Procrastination, lack of patience, self doubt

What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Big noting, bad sense of humour, laziness, unethical behaviour

What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Virginity

What is your greatest extravagance?
Massages and pedicures and the like - as often as I can!

What is your favorite journey?
The one you're about to embark on!

What is it that you most dislike?
Ignorance

What is the quality you most like in a man?
Strength, intelligence, a thirst to learn, humour

What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Strength, intelligence, a thirst to learn, humour

What do you most value in your friends?
Trust, humour, patience, generosity

If you were to come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be?
A beauty editor.

If you could choose what to come back as, what would it be?
An actress in Hollywood

How would you like to die?
When I'm old in my sleep