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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Not meeting David Bowie, but then they say it’s best not to meet your heroes.
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Kellie Maloney
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Not being truthful to everyone from an earlier age.
My wife and I were meant to meet Frank Sinatra before he went on stage in Hamburg. But there was a taxi-drivers’ strike and we were too late.
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My friend [art director] Simon Costin who, in 35 years, I’ve never once seen in a bad mood.
To be getting paid for doing something I love.
When I rode on the back of a motorbike from London to Rome with my eyes closed the entire way.
Coffee, which is why I’ve given it up.
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