Bruce Dickinson
English heavy metal singer
Well, I’m not too happy about snakes. I also hate sand. It’s very inconvenient.
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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
That we will drown in plastic waste.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 January 2009 source ↗
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Angela Griffin
British actress and television presenter
Not working. I want to be one of those old actors on the set of Casualty at 95, who quietly passes away in the actual scene rather than at home.
It used to be loneliness, and it might still be.
That we’re all going to hell in a handcart and Trump is driving.
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When I read about the abuse of Baby P.
I once bought the most expensive moisturiser in the shop and it brought me out in spots. Lesson learned.
The Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana.
I have great hopes for Barack Obama.
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