Pedro Almodóvar
Film director
A sudden summer breeze on a hot afternoon.
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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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Health, life, everything around me on a daily basis, being grateful for life—every day is a blessing.
Zadie Smith
Novelist and essayist
Reading quietly, in high grass, among loved ones (who are also quietly reading). Followed by a boozy lunch.
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View profile →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.
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.
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 :-).
Just normal people from my hometown, from my country.
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.
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