Charles Dance
British actor
Realising what I wanted to do as a career – aged about 22.
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Yesterday: sun-lounger, back garden, cup of tea, radio on.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 August 2015 source ↗
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Terry O'Neill
British photographer
I’ve been happy all my life.
My college years when I was 17 to 19, before the responsibilities of adulthood, just doing the things that I was good at and liked – computers, maths, further maths (I was a geek).
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Probably my husband. In a world of bullshitters, he steers a tremendously honest course.
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