Jason Isaacs
English actor
I wouldn’t have spent so much time trying to be a professional skateboarder or snooker player.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Nothing – haven’t you heard of the butterfly effect? I could find myself still collecting glasses in Charnock Richard while Donald Sutherland would be enjoying my life.
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Rosa Parks
Civil-rights activist
As I look back on those days, it’s just like a dream. The only thing that bothered me was that we waited so long to make this protest and to let it be known wherever we go that all of us should be free and equal and have all opportunities that others should have.
Siri Hustvedt
American novelist, essayist, poet
I would have articulated aloud the comments I too often suppressed out of deference to arrogant, condescending, sexist bores.
Simone Biles
United States artistic gymnast
Nothing. Everything has led me to who and where I am now.
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What I am now, but with a better singing voice.
Collecting glasses in a Lancashire pub. Try to take a pint glass with a millimetre of foam still in it, and you get a lit cigarette on the back of your hand.
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