Olivia Williams
British actress
All the things I ought to have done.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Bloody radiator keeps banging. I think it needs air releasing but I don’t have a bleeding key.
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Donna Tartt
American novelist and writer
All kinds of ridiculous things, like worrying about the lobsters I see in restaurant tanks in Chinatown.
The children. As a mother you are constantly worrying whether you’ve done the right thing.
Big Narstie
British entertainer
Documentaries, my dog and Pornhub.
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My life won’t have full quality until we achieve equality for all.
Any fashion designer whose clothes on me must have made them weep.
I’ve had a surprising number of near-death experiences: I was nearly blown up by a landmine in Sudan; I was stranded on the Zambezi river at night; I was bucked off a rodeo horse in Arizona and had to be airlifted to hospital; and, worst of all, I once ate a Pot Noodle.
How about The Hokey Cokey? That’s always fun, especially if they’re carrying the coffin.
Working on an assembly line in a plastics factory.
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