If you could edit your past, what would you change?

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Recorded Penny Lancaster said elsewhere, not written here
I would be less naive.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 September 2025 source ↗

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Mary McCartney English photographer and cookbook author
Through food, I’ve become more interested in the protection of soil, the way things are grown, and biodiversity. I’d have become a quantum physicist!
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 February 2022 source ↗
Tim Minchin Australian musician, writer, actor and comedian
I’d take back some dumb shit I said when I had no audience and found that being shocking made people laugh.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 July 2020 source ↗
Shirley Ballas English ballroom dancer
I would be much more available for my brother when he was not well and try to understand more about mental health, which I didn’t know anything about at the time.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 June 2018 source ↗

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