Shakin' Stevens
Welsh rock and roll singer and songwriter
You only get out what you put in. Karma – it all comes round.
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
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When were you happiest?
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Minimum effort, maximum satisfaction. That’s the way everyone should live.
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That life is tough and unfair; that life is beautiful.
Diana Athill
Editor and memoirist
That this was true, I owe to Montaigne. I can’t remember when I read, or was told, that he considered it a good thing to spend a short time every day thinking about death, thus getting used to its inevitability and coming to understand that something inevitable is natural and can’t be too bad, but it was in my early teens, and it struck me as a sensible idea. Of course I didn’t set out to think about death in a regular way every day, but I did think about it quite often, and sure enough, it worked.
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View profile →I would have spent more time with my parents. I did see them often, but you don’t realise how much you’ll miss someone or something until it’s gone.
That Italy didn’t qualify for the World Cup this year.
I am always very happy in Sardinia with my family; I spend at least six months of the year there. Six months working and six months relaxing – I think that is a great balance.
Overcooking pasta for my Italian family in Napoli – they would kill me.
As a nice and fair guy who helped bring authentic Italian cooking to the UK.
I wanted to be a footballer at first, like any other Neapolitan kid.
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