Mike Skinner
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Infinite money might allow me to achieve unbounded creativity.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
If only I could drive. I have tried learning. I almost demolished James Ivory’s house in America. That was scary; I never drove again.
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Not drinking alcohol.
Getting rid of my phone.
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This isn’t a complaint, but obscurity would be nice. You can’t have a bad day in public because everyone’s got phones.
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A 19th-century ebony and cane chair from the Raj period.
Unfinished work and caffeine.
None: I do not want a funeral.
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I am happiest when I am working.
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