Matthew Modine
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The inability to negotiate peace and truly forgive.
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A verbatim standing question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A questionnaire, documented across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Selfishness and no respect for the others.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2010 source ↗
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People who judge other people's actions on their own thought process.
Looking down at other people. I was brought up to treat people as you treat yourself, with respect. The people you meet on the way up are the people you meet on the way down.
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View profile →These tics do bother me. Could I play a match without them? Yes, without some of them. I don't have to touch my nose or put my hair behind my ears before I serve. That's possible to stop. Not putting the bottles in front of my chair, I could go without that, too. But adjusting my underwear, that I could never get rid of. It's impossible.
Playing tennis, competing, winning, but also being at home in Spain, in Majorca, with my friends and family.
Just normal people from my hometown, from my country.
The word says it all. To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.
Sometimes when I'm in the first round or second round, and I'm not playing well, I say, okay, just accept it. Don't get frustrated. Just accept and focus.
I don’t think I have one in particular. I am pretty calm. Just some small things that I better not comment on :-).
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