Selfishness. People who block junctions in their car.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2017 source ↗
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Originally asked
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A verbatim standing question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A questionnaire, documented across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Selfishness and no respect for the others.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2010 source ↗
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Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 April 2026 source ↗
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The need to put other people down.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 October 2022 source ↗
Inefficiency. Whiners.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2022 source ↗
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View profile →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.
Recorded Town & Country, 1 January 2025 source ↗
Just normal people from my hometown, from my country.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2010 source ↗
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.
Recorded Jon Wertheim, 60 Minutes, CBS, CBS News / 60 Minutes, 5 July 2020 source ↗
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.
Recorded Jon Wertheim, 60 Minutes, CBS, CBS News / 60 Minutes, 5 July 2020 source ↗
Playing tennis, competing, winning, but also being at home in Spain, in Majorca, with my friends and family.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 October 2010 source ↗
The word says it all. To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 October 2010 source ↗
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