Una Stubbs
British actress, television personality, and dancer
A little balcony.
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What keeps you awake at night?
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Not drinking alcohol.
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Anonymity. I am not being ungrateful, and I love meeting people, but being six foot four, with big teeth and a beard – there’s no hiding.
For the words to fly from my fingers as just occasionally they do.
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More sleep, less stress.
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When I was three and had meningitis.
I’ve always enjoyed all my jobs, whether it was cleaning the stairs for my piano teacher or working at Lister hospital one summer.
I sleep very soundly.
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