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The need to put other people down.
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What trait do you most dislike in other people?Originally asked
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Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
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Other people’s decorating, if I feel they’ve missed an opportunity and just decorated in that wet-cardboard, modern-grey thing. That’s a life not properly lived.
Ignorance and rudeness. Decency and a please and thank you cost nothing.
Cruelty. I don’t see the point.
Manipulative greed and hate.
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Deciding what and who I wanted to be early on in life.
As one of the greatest entertainers.
I dislike my relationship with food. I wish I didn’t love food so much.
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