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?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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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.
Dying with a feeling of incompleteness.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2013 source ↗
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Michael Flatley
American step dancer
On my deathbed thinking I wish I would have done something that I didn’t do.
Both my grandmother and my mother got dementia. My grandmother has passed away. My mother is in a home. Dementia is my biggest fear because it robs you of the very thing that makes life special.
Those abduction situations where you’re packed in a bunker for 30 years.
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Incompetent leadership.
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