I will let you know when I find out.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I don’t know and I don’t really care, because I’ll be dead, so it won’t really matter.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 September 2024 source ↗
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David Lynch
Film director, screenwriter and painter
And yet I can’t tell you, for no one can prove what happens on the other side. It’s like anybody’s guess until it happens. You can say, I believe this would happen, but you can’t prove it.
Recorded
Etan Ilfeld, The Etan Ilfeld Podcast / Watkins Magazine, Watkins MIND BODY SPIRIT Magazine, 28 January 2025
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We don’t die. We change realms. Life is eternal. Living is not. Live while you are alive.
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View profile →Living life to the full, not having regrets and not trying to plan your future too much. Just enjoy every minute.
Fiercely loyal, funny, easy-going. I’m sure my daughter and stepdaughters wouldn’t agree with the last bit, but I think I am.
I had an opportunity many years ago to move to America and be given a daytime TV show. The kids were quite young and I decided not to, but looking back I wish I had done it.
My mum. I was horrendous growing up – I was always arguing with her.
Years ago in a safari park in South Africa, and getting all dressed up for dinner. Walking across the lawn, I didn’t realise there was a swimming pool that hadn’t been lit and walked straight into the shallow end fully clothed. It still haunts me. I remember trying to get out as if no one would notice.
I can’t bear people who lie.
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