Tracey Ullman
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I would have stopped making records after They Don’t Know.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I wouldn’t bother learning how to use logarithms, and I might give netball a miss.
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It’s all a learning experience, even if it’s a shit time.
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I wouldn’t have hurt as many people, and I would have thought more before speaking.
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That moment in Bilbao in 2020, when I tried to cross the street and did a pirouette and suffered a dreadful break in my right leg, which means now I have 10 screws and a band in it.
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My life won’t have full quality until we achieve equality for all.
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Working on an assembly line in a plastics factory.
Last Tuesday at 10 past three.
Like driving a Ford Mustang with the top down across the Golden Gate Bridge while the sun is setting and you have a dinner reservation in Sausalito.
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