Stephen Merchant
English comedian and actor
Failing to get anything in the New Year honours, not even a poxy CBE.
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
It used to be myself, but I am over that now.
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Florence Welch
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Never getting the lead in the musical at school.
The main courses are never as tasty as starters. But enough about my sex life.
Philip Glass
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I don't know. I was lucky; I was able to study with the people I wanted to, be friends with the people I wanted to and in the end I've been able to make a living the way I wanted to.
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Being friends with all of the people I grew up with.
Right now, terrifying.
Helen Edmundson, because I wasn’t able to be a better friend at school.
Just an instinct, but I think reading more Mark Twain.
I have quite a collection of ironic band T shirts.
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