Cuba Gooding Jr
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When I am working. I hate to say it.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I can't remember a time when I was happier than now, to be honest – though that's always been the case.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 April 2014 source ↗
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Eli Roth
American film director and screenwriter
When I'm on set, filming.
Any time I’m in rehearsals.
Marianne Faithfull
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When I was a child and a teenager, before I got discovered.
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It’s hard to narrow it down, because I want them to have a bit of everything—humor, kindness, integrity, intelligence, tolerance (they need lots of that). But if I had to choose just one it would probably be loyalty.
Playing with a dog. And we’re both drunk.
A dog. (I don't have one because we're back and forth over the Atlantic and it would be cruel to leave it.)
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