Gemma Whelan
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It would be lovely if people thought I was kind.
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Vogue, to one guest at a time, on camera, 73 Questions
A recurring legacy prompt in Vogue's 73 Questions, appearing with only minor wording changes.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
As a great songwriter.
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Sonya Yoncheva
Opera singer
Oh, yes, absolutely. I have two children, and often I think about them and how when I’m gone, they will be here listening to an old CD of mine, thinking, “At least I can I can hear her voice.” I think this is very charming. It’s very nice. And then, of course, I also think about the other generations of opera singers coming behind me… It’s so important that they can have a real testimony of how it was in our ears. I think that what stands the test of time is really the memory of people hearing us singing somewhere.
Malcolm Gladwell
Staff writer at The New Yorker; author of The Tipping Point and Outliers
As a writer who took cheering up his listeners seriously.
Christy Turlington Burns
American model
As someone who didn’t waste a minute.
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Nothing. I love getting old – I love the freedom it allows you.
Going on stage and saying, “Good evening Lyon!” I was in Marseille.
Uncontrollable, wonderful.
Somebody wrote that my voice was more numbing than novocaine.
Feeling so helpless. You feel that governments should be making better choices; people are speaking out and nothing seems to be done about it.
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