kd lang
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My limited capacity to learn.
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I haven't seen a ghost yet.
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Not playing Freddie Mercury.
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Finding cucumber in things is a continual disappointment.
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Being nominated for an award and not winning – there have been a couple.
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Picking their nose and eating it.
Come back to me the night before I pop my clogs.
A single-malt whisky.
Several: cutting the local vicar's lawn, shovelling shit from a stable, waiting tables, picking up and washing actors' smelly pants and socks.
Doc Brown proved that editing the past is disastrous.
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