Watching my girls laugh together. It is more short-lived than I’d like, but it does happen!
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I don’t know about perfect, but a creamy scoop of green-tea ice cream comes fairly close.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 30 October 2015 source ↗
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Rafael Nadal
Spanish professional tennis player, 2001–2024
Playing tennis, competing, winning, but also being at home in Spain, in Majorca, with my friends and family.
Listening to my sons play a piano-and-sax duet.
Seeing my family thrive and being underwater.
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I went overboard on the money I invested in the production of Allegiance. It did not return, but it was fulfilling that I was able to tell a story that’s dear.
One great big artistic challenge.
As a teenager I told my father, “You led us into the camp like sheep to slaughter.” I knew I had hurt him, this man that I loved so much. That’s haunted me all my life.
Pope Francis, who left the Vatican to wash the feet of non-believers.
Barbra Streisand’s Evergreen from A Star Is Born or You’ll Never Walk Alone from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel.
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