Kelis Rogers
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My mom. She has been a fashion designer and run a catering business.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Michael Palin. He’s managed to master several disciplines. He’s also proved that being nice doesn’t mean boring.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 March 2019 source ↗
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Martin Sheen
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My wife Janet: she is the most scrupulously honest human being I have ever encountered.
Mario Molina
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there are really very many. Again, as a child, it was obviously those scientists which had lived in the past that had made such an important mark in science history.
Lil Nas X
American rapper
I have to say myself, because I know everything that he’s been through and still continues to go through. I admire him. So I vote me – I like him.
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