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I would try to work on being able to trust people more easily.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 February 2023 source ↗
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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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Philip Gould
Political strategist and pollster; architect of New Labour
When I thought maybe I've just got a few weeks, I thought God this is what they mean by the reckoning. I've got to sort all this stuff out in days. Is it possible to sort out all those things in your past that you'd prefer not to have done? ... But actually by going through the process we've gone through, I think we have. And it's a real blessing to have this time do that.
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Simon Hattenstone, The Guardian, interview at Gould's home in London, 20 September 2011
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Rupert Graves
English actor
I’d edit out all my gauche incomprehension.
Katherine Parkinson
English actor
I wish I hadn’t been a heavy smoker for so many years.
Ice-T
American rapper and actor
To be born independently wealthy.
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