Vicky McClure
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Opening day of The Empire Strikes Back, 86th Street Loews.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2023 source ↗
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Bernadine Evaristo
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When I hired two private detectives and got them to follow each other.
Recently, as people began to understand what I am trying to do in my painting.
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