Nora Ephron
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The movies I made that didn't work.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Realising that people are not always who they claim to be.
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Rachel Whiteread
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Losing my parents when they were relatively young. My dad was 59 and my mum died at 72, 14 years ago.
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When I was 14 I went up for Juliet with Zeffirelli and I was hugely disappointed that I didn’t get that.
Laurence Fox
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Not being Bond.
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Right now, Get Lucky. I'm sure this will change.
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