Archie Panjabi
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Someone else to write my books.
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Sheridan Smith
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A family of my own, I guess, though it terrifies me.
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Everyone comes to me for advice, and I wish they didn’t. I negotiate fees for other artists, give advice on property, on food, on clothes, on pensions. I can be standing on a corner in another country and someone will approach me for help.
If I needed less sleep.
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Not being born a boy.
In August, when my middle sister called to tell me her breast cancer had spread to her spine, pelvis and bones. It turned out not to be true.
My husband is the kindest, funniest, most strange and wondrous person I know.
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