Fran Healy
Scottish musician
It’s just this warm whoosh that goes through you and starts just below the navel area, the pit of your tum.
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Like coming home.
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Viv Albertine
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It’s like digging a field together: it’s hard work, not very glamorous, but you can stand back and think, “We did that.”
Edith Bowman
Scottish radio DJ and television presenter
Something that you can’t describe or put in a box. It changes daily and surprises you when you least expect.
Can’t remember.
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Talking in cliches. We have the most economic, resonant and versatile language in the world, yet so many people use it in a dull and boring way.
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Meryl Streep. For all her truthful and perfected offerings that have taken me to an “elsewhere”, in which my mind could feel both soothed and stimulated.
Working as the assistant to an agony aunt on a women’s magazine. When we didn’t get enough heartbreaking letters, we made them up.
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