Yayoi Kusama
Japanese artist
I am in my ninth decade, so most people I have admired are no longer alive.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What do you value most in your friends?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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What is your greatest fear?
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What are you unwilling to optimise?
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When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, what do you do?
Daily life
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.
Just normal people from my hometown, from my country.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2010 source ↗
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Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
English interior designer and television personality
The missus. She is the glamour mamma mia at the top of our feudal pyramid. We all live together, so she’s a full-time grandmother and rules the roost. How she steered us through lockdown was extraordinary.
Jackie Chan
Hong Kong actor and martial artist
Wow, so many – Robert De Niro, James Cameron, Will Smith.
My wife, Grace.
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View profile →Playing tennis, competing, winning, but also being at home in Spain, in Majorca, with my friends and family.
The word says it all. To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.
Selfishness and no respect for the others.
I don’t think I have one in particular. I am pretty calm. Just some small things that I better not comment on :-).
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.
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