Joseph Fiennes
English actor
Come back to me the night before I pop my clogs.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Working on myself. I’m a work in progress to the end.
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Zandra Rhodes
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Founding the Fashion and Textile Museum.
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Lasting this long.
John Simm
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Professionally, becoming a relative success in a job that I love; and personally, helping to raise two wonderful children.
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If I bothered to read instructions.
My closest friend at uni – I sometimes retreat from life in quite an extreme way, without word. Back then, I didn’t really understand what I was doing.
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