Ian Rankin
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I’d give myself some fashion sense.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I am a living self-help book – I’ve managed to train myself to never regret anything.
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Some of those late nights.
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I don’t think I would change anything because it might not have got me here.
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View profile →Our family song – Three Is A Magic Number, which my husband played me on the way back from the maternity hospital.
To my grandma Faye, because I didn’t realise, when I was growing up, what an icon she was. She fought at Cable Street, and worked her arse off to get the family out of the tenements. She had a lot of wisdom to impart.
A beautiful, sequined dress for a showbiz function. It was pushing £1,850.
An actress. My family thought it was ridiculous, it was like saying you wanted to be an astronaut.
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