Caring too much about what others think.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Selfishness and cruelty.
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View all 202 →Selfishness—people who don’t care about others or their feelings and will do or say anything as long as they get what they want.
Insensitivity. Indifference about what is right or wrong. Indifference about justice.
People who are proud of their ignorance.
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View profile →Love makes me feel sick. I get sick with worry about my kids. It keeps me up at night.
A Rolls-Royce. I met my wife, Jackie, when I was filming a Lynda La Plante drama called The Governor. I fell in love with her instantly and I was bullshitting that I had a Rolls-Royce. When I finished filming, she decided to leave her country and come and live with me in London. On the way to the airport, I phoned my PA and said, “Go and buy a Rolls-Royce.”
Cowardice. There are so many issues that I would like to express opinions about but I’m too scared to stick my head above the parapet because of the social media pile-on.
Losing my marbles.
I was born in 1964, in the most working-class area of Liverpool, so the N-word was bandied around a lot.
Filming a TV show in a field in the snow in February in the Dublin hills for 14 hours; the director said, “We’re not going to get that shot today.”
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