Terence Conran
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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I’m always happy. Ask Simon Cowell: he says if I had a tail, I’d wag it.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 September 2017 source ↗
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Vanessa Redgrave
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Is all happiness in the past? Well, the births of three children. And playing with children and grandchildren.
Living in London in the late 60s—setting my hair with beer cans and shopping for shoes in Knightsbridge.
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