David Hasselhoff
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Terror of the next day.
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What is the worst job you have done?
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What is your greatest fear?
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Nothing, I can sleep everywhere but an aeroplane.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2008 source ↗
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Inconsequential things like whether my basketball team, the Portland Trail Blazers, can get it together for the play-offs.
Mandy Patinkin
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Not being at peace with myself, in spite of an ongoing lifetime effort to try to calm down and accept that, no matter what, I did the best I could.
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I worked in a unisex clothes store for three days. Girls would say, 'Do I look fat in this?' I'd say, 'Yes.' I was fired.
Losing my mind and not knowing it.
A 'no' is free.
It's bad taste to brag about money.
An unreadable wig.
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