Tracey Ullman
British and American actress
I would have stopped making records after They Don’t Know.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Nothing, really, because it was all interesting.
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Erin O'Connor
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The bits that consumed me with guilt.
Nicholson Baker
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I made too much money in my 30s, and it distorted my writing and made me less hungry. Then, in my 40s, I spent all the money on daily life – and now I don’t have it.
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I would take things a little slower.
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No one I can think of, but lots of people no longer living.
Secretary to a lawyer. I was sacked after a week.
When I received my scholarship to art school in 1945.
My parents. We didn’t realise how absolutely desperate they were when we left Germany, because my father couldn’t earn anything. A letter turned up fairly recently in which he said, “We’ve been through a terrible time because Julia [my mother] never stopped talking about suicide and not just for herself, but to take the children with her.”
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