Marina Abramović
Performance artist
Exactly what I am now.
What did you want to be when you were growing up?
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
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How close have you come to death?
Death & what remains
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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What song would you like played at your funeral?
Death & what remains
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Dancing was in my bones from when I started ballet at two.
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Romesh Ranganathan
English actor and comedian
A comedian or rapper. You can tell by the way I’m dressed that I’m a frustrated rapper.
A hairdresser through the week and a star on the weekends.
Samuel West
British actor, theatre director, and narrator
A DJ. I still do.
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In my dreams: I’ll feel as if I am falling towards a white light and then suddenly I wake up.
When I found out that I was having my baby. They told me I was having a little girl and I named it Elizabeth. Then, when the baby was born it was my beautiful boy, Mark.
We’ve Only Just Begun by The Carpenters.
People close to me throwing me under a bus for a crust.
I would be much more available for my brother when he was not well and try to understand more about mental health, which I didn’t know anything about at the time.
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