Jessica Raine
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The day I got accepted by Rada and the day I found out I was pregnant, both a long time coming. I am a late bloomer.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Living in London in the late 60s—setting my hair with beer cans and shopping for shoes in Knightsbridge.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2010 source ↗
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Kevin Rowland
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On stage – the Old Vic in 1981 and Glastonbury last year.
Right here, right now.
Jesse Jackson
American minister, activist and politician
In college, meeting my wife and then having our first child, and marching together to bring down the walls of Jim Crow.
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Forgetting. Or, worse yet, not recognizing who my real friends are.
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