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I would have spent more time practising and got a proper lawyer to sort out my first album contract.
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Jimmy Carter
39th President of the United States, 1977–1981; Governor of Georgia 1971–1975
I wish I sent one more helicopter to get the hostages and we would have rescued then and I - I would have been re-elected, but that may have - and that may have interfered with the foundation of the Carter Center. And if I had to choose between four more years and the Carter Center, I think I would choose the Carter Center.
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David Jason
English actor
Not getting older at each birthday, but I appreciate it beats the alternative.
Julie Hesmondhalgh
English actress and narrator
Every time I got drunk and out of order. Especially in my teens and 20s.
Joan Jett
American singer, songwriter and guitarist
I don’t think I’d change anything: the bad forms you more than the good.
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A saxophone for £8,000.
We were doing a tour in Japan and as our plane landed, it rose again, out of the blue. About 10 years later there was this programme about 10 of the nearest misses, and it was my flight. There was another plane on the runway and we nearly landed on top of it. I didn’t know until 10 years later.
When I realised that I could be a musician. I was 16.
When my new-born daughter Cleopatra died and I wasn’t there. I was doing a US tour and I remember sitting down in an airport and losing it.
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