The question
Which quality in your friends matters most to you?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
A fixed Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire item asked across its three-decade archive, with independent variants in friendship and profile interviews.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Spanish professional tennis player, 2001–2024
The word says it all. To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 October 2010 source ↗
That they want to be with me.
Their ability to make me laugh from the gut.
A love of laughter and a shared belief that life is a dream.
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
I don’t think I have one in particular. I am pretty calm. Just some small things that I better not comment on :-).
Playing tennis, competing, winning, but also being at home in Spain, in Majorca, with my friends and family.
Selfishness and no respect for the others.
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.
If I don't do that with the bottles, then I sit down, I could be thinking of something else. If I do always the same things, it means that I am focused and I'm alert to think purely about tennis.
Just normal people from my hometown, from my country.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Pelé, Megan Rapinoe, Bernadette Peters, Jim Broadbent, Jean Smart
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