Rafael Nadal
Spanish professional tennis player, 2001–2024
Playing tennis, competing, winning, but also being at home in Spain, in Majorca, with my friends and family.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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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.
Being surrounded by friends and family.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2011 source ↗
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Hans Zimmer
Film composer
Playing around in my studio by myself, discovering the possibility of new ideas.
Floating in a river full of fat trout.
A plate of fettuccine ragù with my kids.
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