Robert Carlyle
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I'd have concentrated a bit more at school and maybe gone to university rather than drama school.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I’d have told a racist cabbie to go fuck himself, but I was scared about being chucked out on the street at 2am.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 September 2015 source ↗
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Felicity Jones
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I wouldn’t change anything. Life is what it is, you just have to get on with it.
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