Julian Lloyd Webber
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Seeing Leyton Orient in the premiership.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
My life won’t have full quality until we achieve equality for all.
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A few zeros on my bank balance.
Paul Merson
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Nothing, because it’s up to me how I feel. I’ve been a millionaire three times and I still wanted to kill myself.
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View profile →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.
Any fashion designer whose clothes on me must have made them weep.
I wouldn’t bother learning how to use logarithms, and I might give netball a miss.
Last Tuesday at 10 past three.
Like driving a Ford Mustang with the top down across the Golden Gate Bridge while the sun is setting and you have a dinner reservation in Sausalito.
As having done my best.
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