The question
Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?Originally asked
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.
Spanish professional tennis player, 2001–2024
Just normal people from my hometown, from my country.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2010 source ↗
Jo Brand. She’s a fighter, she’s successful, she’s a straight talker; she cares about people.
My older sister, Jeanne. We fought when we were kids, but she is so entirely capable.
Camila Batmanghelidjh, the founder of Kids Company.
Ed Sheeran, a little ginger boy from the farmlands in Suffolk who ran away to London, slept on the streets and became the biggest musician in the world.
Playing tennis, competing, winning, but also being at home in Spain, in Majorca, with my friends and family.
I don’t think I have one in particular. I am pretty calm. Just some small things that I better not comment on :-).
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.
Selfishness and no respect for the others.
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.
Lleyton Hewitt, Max Whitlock, Joe Wicks, Andy Roddick, Chris Hoy, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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