Jessica Hynes
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I wouldn’t have drunk alcohol.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I’d take back some dumb shit I said when I had no audience and found that being shocking made people laugh.
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Rachel Whiteread
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I would have come out earlier.
Ian Rankin
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I’d give myself some fashion sense.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Maybe if we all admire her hard enough, she’ll live beyond this incredibly disturbing era.
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