People inspiring the new generation of politically active youngsters.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2010 source ↗
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View all 406 →Artists who do their own thing, without compromise: Ken Loach, Bob Dylan and James Kelman.
My mother, because now I have two sons and I have help around me – including my family – I can't imagine having four little ones under the age of nine, as she did.
The Dalai Lama because he has peace, and we all want that.
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View profile →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.
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.
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.
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.
The word says it all. To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.
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