Michelle Dockery
British actress
Several haircuts and my belly-button piercing.
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What song would you like played at your funeral?
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Some of the neuroses of my 20s. I knew I had a great talent, but I thought it was unmarketable because I felt ugly.
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Minnie Driver
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I’d edit out all the awful men I managed to find who confirmed my worst suspicions about my body and my character.
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A bilious green suit springs to mind.
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On a flight to Newcastle, when we had terrible storms. The plane dropped quickly and the oxygen masks fell down. We had to land in Manchester.
Having a career that’s 29 years in.
It’s another bloody Prince song, I’m so sorry – Mountains. I love how the chord structure ascends and the vocals – “It’s only mountains and the sea / There’s nothing greater than you and me” – feel like an ascension. I’d like to think, when I shuffle off this mortal coil, I’m going to be ascending as opposed to descending. I think I’ve been a good girl.
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