Shakin' Stevens
Welsh rock and roll singer and songwriter
It would be nice just to be remembered.
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
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How close have you come to death?
Death & what remains
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What song would you like played at your funeral?
Death & what remains
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
Originally asked
Vogue, to one guest at a time, on camera, 73 Questions
A recurring legacy prompt in Vogue's 73 Questions, appearing with only minor wording changes.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
As someone who tried to keep learning, and wanted to help.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 November 2017 source ↗
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Jo Nesbø
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As a nice guy, but I’m not sure that is going to happen.
Alice Eve
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With daily rituals across the world.
Jane Birkin
Singer, songwriter, actor
Not at all! I don’t think that you can really choose what people will like, or say, or even remember about you. I mean, my God, probably the Birkin bag will be known. … If I look myself to find out the date of something — and the first thing that pops up is that bloody bag! I think it’ll be “Je T’aime Moi Non Plus,” when I go feet first, that’ll be the tune they’ll play on the television, and then talk about the bag
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Anybody who invests the lion’s share of their time in helping others.
I bought all my siblings signet rings and pendants with my family crest on. There are a lot of us.
Have you seen my documentaries?
Jump Around by House Of Pain, and Pull Up To The Bumper by Grace Jones: stuff people could dance to.
How little confidence I had in my late teens and early 20s.
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