Bryan Adams
Canadian singer-songwriter and musician
Paying my rent and being able to support my family from making music.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I was very proud of doing Falstaff, because it seemed to go well.
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Marie Kondo
Japanese organizing consultant, author, and television show host
It’s still a work in progress, but I would have to say, organising the world. With all the KonMari consultants around the world, and those that read my books or watched the Netflix shows, we are definitely making a difference.
My daughters and granddaughters.
Ice-T
American rapper and actor
The transition from streetlife to the legitimate world.
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Reading aloud the last two pages of a book about Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell. It was about his relationship with his cat, and a letter to a friend whose dog had died. It’s about letting the unexpected happen to you, and how that can really be what life is about.
Not being active in my own desires.
Picking tiny bits of glass out of long grass for Haringey council, 45 years ago.
When I was a child, it was a bus driver or engine driver; then, when I was a teenager, I went to the theatre and wanted to be an actor.
Just remembered, really.
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