Isla Fisher
Australian actress
I would have tried that anti-stretch mark cream during pregnancy.
If you could edit your past, what would you change?
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I wish I could go back and not be the anxious child that I was. I spent the first 25 years of my life just trying to survive human interaction.
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I’d swap out a few boyfriends.
Cory Taylor
Novelist and screenwriter
So many times I’ve wondered what might have happened to me if I had lost my legs, or even just my right one, where my first melanoma appeared two or three years later. If I’d just been a second slower stepping away from the car, I might not be dying now. I’d be legless, of course, but still in good health. Of these fateful forks in the road are our lives made up. We are all just a millimetre away from death, all of the time, if only we knew it.
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View profile →I felt like I messed up my marriage. I don’t feel that way any more, but at the time I was devastated.
A guitar – a 1959 Gibson 335.
If I’ve spent money that I shouldn’t have or treated someone badly.
My fear of confrontation.
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