Felicity Jones
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I wouldn’t change anything. Life is what it is, you just have to get on with it.
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What most recently made you cry?
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
All the times I was mean to someone.
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Joseph Fiennes
English actor
Doc Brown proved that editing the past is disastrous.
I’d have reported the tutor who asked me to read an essay to him sitting on the toilet as he lay soaping himself in the bath.
David Jason
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Not getting older at each birthday, but I appreciate it beats the alternative.
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Worry about the things you can control and don’t worry about the things you can’t.
I was 17 and about to go on a first date with my first boyfriend. I was so desperate for my mum not to meet him that I was trying to get to the door before she did. I ran down the stairs as she opened it, and slid down the last five steps on my arse.
Loyal, relentless, goofy.
It would be a racist comment.
The FA Cup final, watching Crystal Palace win.
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