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When I was 17, I was offered a tennis scholarship at the University of Virginia. I wish I had been brave enough to take it.
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Ethan Hawke
Actor, director and novelist
Too many things to mention.
Jeremy Vine
English presenter and journalist
I’d stop my teenage self worrying about how my life was going to pan out.
I wouldn’t change anything. When I was 29, my first husband died, so I learned a new way of thinking about life, which is: there are many things that you can’t control.
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Getting my teeth done. I had veneers and it took 18 months.
On a flight, last February, from Atlanta to Rio. We went through a storm and I was convinced that the plane was going down. The overhead cabins were opening, everything was falling out, people were screaming and I was hanging on to my seat.
Firm, fair, fun.
When Sean Connery died. He was a big tennis fan – a big Andy fan – and I met him a few times.
That Scottish tennis has failed to capitalise on the successes of Jamie and Andy.
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