Rupert Graves
English actor
Remembering to do things in order, because I have to transcend my nature, which is haphazard.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Still to come, I think.
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Sofia Coppola
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Making films exactly how I wanted.
People told us Eurovision was like a poisoned chalice – to have been part of an amazing team that worked on changing the attitudes around that is really cool.
Elaine Paige
English singer and actress
To be working still.
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The different areas of global catastrophe.
As an optimist.
It’s actually people knowing how fearful I am.
Being torn to shreds by a very elderly woman for driving badly on the Isle of Man, maybe 15 years ago. She stopped in the middle of the road and really let me have it.
As vital as breathing.
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