Omid Djalili
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As a well-balanced and functioning thin man.
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Vogue, to one guest at a time, on camera, 73 Questions
A recurring legacy prompt in Vogue's 73 Questions, appearing with only minor wording changes.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
As a great mother, wife and songwriter.
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Louis Walsh
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I’d like people to say, “Well, he was a bit odd, he was a bit funny.”
As someone who did what he could with what he had.
Armistead Maupin
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As a kind man who told good stories.
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View profile →A gazillion years ago I was in Gucci with Melanie Blatt, and I attempted to sit down on a chair that wasn’t there. I did a full-on stuntwoman backward roll, landed in a ball of the floor and laughed so hard I wet myself. Everybody in the shop moved to a different section.
Some of those late nights.
When my children were small and used to play together, be creative, and were just in that innocent bubble.
An ambulance driver.
That things change.
Not scrolling on my phone as much as I do.
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