Patrick Stewart
Actor
Walking in my garden in England with my wife.
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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What are you unwilling to optimise?
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Playing tennis, competing, winning, but also being at home in Spain, in Majorca, with my friends and family.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 October 2010 source ↗
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A meal alfresco with people I love.
Getting to the point in life where I can accept that the truth is there is no perfect happiness.
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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.
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.
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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