Rita Ora
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That I didn’t think I knew everything.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I’d change my mindset and not be so hard on myself, and impart the knowledge that other people’s intentions aren’t always as well-meaning as my own.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 February 2019 source ↗
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I would put the brain that I have now into my 20-year-old body.
Guy Pearce
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I wish I could go back and not be the anxious child that I was. I spent the first 25 years of my life just trying to survive human interaction.
I wouldn’t change anything. When I was 29, my first husband died, so I learned a new way of thinking about life, which is: there are many things that you can’t control.
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I was in a car crash when I was 16, and I have a little scar on my face from smashing the passenger window with my head. If the car had rolled, I would have been dead.
Scraping plates in a fish and chip cafe in Whitby.
Kind, fun and that I cared.
Being a decent person.
On my wedding day in Oxfordshire, six years ago.
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