David Arquette
American actor, producer, & former professional wrestler
My daughter, Coco, because divorce is so difficult.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
To my younger self. I was incredibly self-loathing and self-doubting, and I’m still undoing that damage 30 years later.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 April 2023 source ↗
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Ashley Jensen
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To anyone who gets into my car, because it’s such a mess.
Paul Merson
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Walsall fans. I wanted to be a good manager but I was really bad with drink and gambling at the time. I should have done better.
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View profile →My mother and my brother would still be alive. So much of my life has been coping with the grief of losing them.
The summer of 1997. My husband, who is an American, gave up everything to come and live with me in Edinburgh when we were students, and we were so skint but we had so much fun.
At a fashion show after-party in New York in 2004, my friend dared me to push her into the pool. I did, and you’ve never heard laughter die so quickly.
My creative freedom. I was the creative director of a large fashion brand when I packed it all in to pursue my writing.
When I was about 18, I worked on the chicken counter in a large supermarket, and every morning I had to pierce 64 birds on to industrial skewers to load up the rotisserie. That was very grim.
People who can’t hear other points of view. Absolute certainty always scares me a little.
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