Discretion and good cheer.
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
A fixed Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire item asked across its three-decade archive, with independent variants in friendship and profile interviews.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The word says it all. To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 October 2010 source ↗
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View all 65 →I think I value the same things everyone does—loyalty, a sense of humor, the ability to make campaign contributions.
Their responsibility to the friendship.
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Just normal people from my hometown, from my country.
I don’t think I have one in particular. I am pretty calm. Just some small things that I better not comment on :-).
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.
Playing tennis, competing, winning, but also being at home in Spain, in Majorca, with my friends and family.
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.
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