Bruno Tonioli
Italian choreographer
That I did everything I had to and I never gave up!
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
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Vogue, to one guest at a time, on camera, 73 Questions
A recurring legacy prompt in Vogue's 73 Questions, appearing with only minor wording changes.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
As being useful.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 June 2019 source ↗
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Toyah Willcox
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For winning that elusive Oscar.
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Tidying fanatic.
Adjoa Andoh
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I don’t care if I’m not remembered.
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Nine years ago I discovered I had stage 3/4 uterine cancer and went through nine months of excruciating surgery, illness and chemotherapy. In that time, I touched death and it was the most powerful transformation of my life. I was forced to learn to take care of my body.
That most men have not yet come to understand the impact and the devastating consequences of violence against women.
In my 60s. So many things that tortured me when I was younger have fallen away. Writing The Apology, the letter I wrote in my father’s voice, apologising for abusing me, has freed me from the last vestiges of anger, confusion, rancour and hate. It released me from a frame that had determined my life.
I would have honoured my body, I would have lived inside it, cherished it and protected it.
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