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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Boothby Graffoe calling up to pester me into promoting his new album, available on Amazon and iTunes.
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Daphne Guinness
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Poetry. I start getting into a float state, and write stanzas and couplets in the middle of the night.
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Nothing. I sleep like a log.
Emily Mortimer
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All the things that seem very unimportant and manageable the next morning.
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View profile →I'd edit out all the wrong people I surrounded myself with socially and professionally whom I thought I had to tolerate.
To my 17-year-old daughter Isabella, whom I described in an interview last year as "keen on maths".
Still being married to Annabel.
The concept of New Labour.
When my bowels move freely and without complications.
Sinatra's The Best Is Yet To Come.
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