Rafael Nadal
Spanish professional tennis player, 2001–2024
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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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Anything underneath me in water I can’t see to the bottom of.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2018 source ↗
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Geoffrey Rush
Australian actor
Being alone in a room with a tiger: a recurring dream, never reality, fortunately.
Angela Griffin
British actress and television presenter
Not working. I want to be one of those old actors on the set of Casualty at 95, who quietly passes away in the actual scene rather than at home.
Lack of purpose.
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Impatience. The inability to ever finish a knitting project.
Ingratitude. Taking advantage of others.
My sister, who manages to see the positive in any situation.
Pizza and wine after performing for a great Saturday-night crowd on Broadway.
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