Joseph Fiennes
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Aung San Suu Kyi: an extraordinary humanitarian fighting for democracy in a Burmese dictatorship.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Sister Alice Marie Quinn, who runs St. Vincent Meals on Wheels in Los Angeles.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2010 source ↗
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My sporting hero, Muhammad Ali.
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He passed away a few months ago: Muhammad Ali.
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My grandad for having the courage always to be himself.
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To sit by a clear river on a warm day in early July with the smell of cut grass in the air.
Serially telling endless boring jokes and sexism and racism and homophobia (they often go together).
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