Being run over by a cyclist on a pavement or pedestrian crossing, because it’s nearly happened too frequently.
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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.
I don’t think I have one in particular. I am pretty calm. Just some small things that I better not comment on :-).
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2010 source ↗
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The word says it all. To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.
Playing tennis, competing, winning, but also being at home in Spain, in Majorca, with my friends and family.
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.
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.
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