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 your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
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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.
Being unprepared.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2011 source ↗
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Andy Serkis
English actor
Not continuing to question.
Being on my deathbed and realising I’d forgotten to treat each day as the miracle that it is.
To be so cold that I am not able to sleep.
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