Gemma Whelan
English actress
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.
By my friends as hopefully someone who was a good friend, or at least amusing, but I don’t need to be remembered by people I don’t know.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 March 2018 source ↗
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Gavin Rossdale
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Funny and generous.
Brendan Gleeson
Irish actor and director
With tenderness.
Billy Ocean
British singer
As somebody who tried.
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The susceptibility to ideology or tribalism.
If one could shut off the modern world and all the information that flows, not necessarily into your brain but at your face, and doesn’t benefit anything or make one better informed.
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