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I don’t think I would change anything because it might not have got me here.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Absolutely nothing.
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Florence Welch
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Perhaps a few drunken incidents – but I’ll keep the coat.
Harry Redknapp
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I was probably too cheeky to chairmen over the years.
I’d give my younger self the lessons I’ve learned over the years, sparing myself the need to figure everything out so publicly.
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Cockroach stamper at a dried-flower factory.
The best way to spend time is to waste it.
“I would love to go on a date with you, but I’d be too embarrassed.”
A flight from Paraguay to South Africa that went badly wrong. The plane nearly fell out of the sky and the oxygen masks dropped. People were screaming but the pilot saved the day, and then apparently never flew again.
The main courses are never as tasty as starters. But enough about my sex life.
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