Felicity Jones
British actress
A magazine editor.
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What keeps you awake at night?
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Successful like my two uncles, who were paper industry magnates.
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An astronaut, an archaeologist, an actor, and a musician.
Vick Hope
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J-Lo, a foreign correspondent and, at uni, I assumed that someone would tap me on the shoulder and ask me to be in MI6, but it never happened.
A comedian, and I may have achieved that.
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Bill Gates. Not only did he build Microsoft, he went on with his wife to create the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. They support the, in my view, single most important factor in making the world a better place – empowerment of women and girls.
If it wasn’t for coronavirus, it would be right now. All my life I’ve felt a pressure to achieve. It’s gone now, and that gives me a sense of freedom. Whenever I, for short moments, forget about corona and climate change, I’m happy.
In my professional life, the musical Chess on Broadway. It was a resounding fiasco and played for two months. The butcher of Broadway, Frank Rich of the New York Times, was probably very pleased: I’ve never seen such a bad review in my life.
It’s a calm and secure feeling of deep loyalty.
Nothing, really. But without little sleeping pills, I’d go crazy.
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