Sara Pascoe
English comedian, presenter, writer
I would be a bit nicer to myself.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
If I had known what a stylist was when I joined Radio 1, I would have enlisted the help of one.
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Julia Ormond
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I wouldn’t have hurt as many people, and I would have thought more before speaking.
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I wasted a year doing nothing at 18. I got with a guy and just wanted to hang out. It didn’t do me any favours.
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