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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I don’t think I would change anything because it might not have got me here.
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Rupert Graves
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I’d edit out all my gauche incomprehension.
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I would be a bit nicer to myself.
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I would really love to know my parents as an adult. I lost my dad when I was 14 and my mum when I was 20.
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Handing out leaflets for a dry cleaner’s, because no one wanted them and, if people did take them, they just threw them on the floor.
Getting a house. I didn’t think that was a possibility for me. I’ve been able to do amazing things – Netflix, tours, winning a Bafta – but having something you own is hard, so that’s really up there.
I always relate love to happiness.
Some of my old teachers for disrupting lessons. I was the class clown.
Material. I wake up in the middle of the night and write jokes.
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