James Bay
English singer-songwriter and guitarist
My girlfriend. I am away a lot and, as much as she understands, I’d like to say sorry for not being there.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
To a girl we were mean to in first grade.
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Dominic Cooper
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To Ms Dooley, for failing my maths GCSE several times over.
Whoever has to use the bathroom after my brother.
Eddie Izzard
British comedian and actress
Nelson Mandela, because I didn’t do enough to stop apartheid. Now I have hopefully made amends.
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Two weeks before shooting – after some of our financing dropped out – when the producers said I had to cut a week’s worth of scenes out of my script. I was on location and away from my daughters [currently in middle and high school] who I felt were needing a mother.
To follow your path and not worry about what to do too much; one thing leads to the next, and you wind up where you’re meant to be.
Being stuck in a project that’s not challenging me, or true to my nature.
Making films exactly how I wanted.
A magazine editor like Diana Vreeland.
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