Dan Aykroyd
Canadian and American actor and musician
A shiatsu masseuse on 24-hour retainer.
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Which book are you ashamed not to have read?
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
More sleep – my children do not sleep.
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As someone who made you think that anything’s possible. I did three marathons in a day once but walking the high-wire at Battersea Park station was the challenge I loved most because I had to master a skill.
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My new year resolution is actually to read all the classics and I’m ashamed that I haven’t read everything by the Brontë sisters.
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