Rafael Nadal
Spanish professional tennis player, 2001–2024
I don’t think I have one in particular. I am pretty calm. Just some small things that I better not comment on :-).
What is your greatest fear?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
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What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
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How close have you come to death?
Death & what remains
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What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Time & hindsight
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
Originally asked
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.
On my deathbed thinking I wish I would have done something that I didn’t do.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 August 2024 source ↗
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To be so cold that I am not able to sleep.
Rosie Jones
British comedian and actress
Not being liked.
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I think any of us will be lucky to be remembered at all.
Digging foundations in the freezing-cold Chicago winters.
My recent battle with cancer.
You’re going to come up against brick walls in life. You’ve got to go over them, under them, around them, or crash through them, but somehow or other you’ve got to get to the other side.
The day my son was born.
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