Gary Numan
British musician
I was an air display pilot for 15 years, and watched most of my friends die in crashes. When the children came along, I got out of it.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A recurring Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
It’s nearly happened twice, each time after an operation.
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View all 209 →Physically, falling off my bike two years ago. Emotionally, when my mother died when I was 27.
Where do I begin? There have been a lot.
Felicity Jones
British actress
Nearly crashing into a train on one film, almost falling out of a hot-air balloon on another, narrowly avoiding getting knocked over by a taxi …
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View profile →A 19th-century ebony and cane chair from the Raj period.
A doctor, a painter, an actress.
None: I do not want a funeral.
If only I could drive. I have tried learning. I almost demolished James Ivory’s house in America. That was scary; I never drove again.
Unfinished work and caffeine.
I am happiest when I am working.
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