Gino D'Acampo: If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

The question

If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

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Gino D'Acampo

Italian-British celebrity chef and media personality

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I would have spent more time with my parents. I did see them often, but you don’t realise how much you’ll miss someone or something until it’s gone.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 December 2022 source ↗

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Oliver Sacks Neurologist and writer

The peace of the Sabbath, of a stopped world, a time outside time, was palpable, infused everything, and I found myself drenched with a wistfulness, something akin to nostalgia, wondering what if: What if A and B and C had been different? What sort of person might I have been? What sort of a life might I have lived?

Recorded The New York Times, Sunday Review, 14 August 2015 source ↗

Joan Jett American singer, songwriter and guitarist

I don’t think I’d change anything: the bad forms you more than the good.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 November 2020 source ↗

Minnie Driver British and American actress

I’d edit out all the awful men I managed to find who confirmed my worst suspicions about my body and my character.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 February 2023 source ↗

Rupert Graves English actor

I’d edit out all my gauche incomprehension.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 January 2015 source ↗

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Question As a child, what career or life did you imagine for yourself? Identity & self

I wanted to be a footballer at first, like any other Neapolitan kid.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 December 2022 source ↗

Question How would you want people to remember you? Death & what remains

As a nice and fair guy who helped bring authentic Italian cooking to the UK.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 December 2022 source ↗

Question What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy? Time & hindsight

I am always very happy in Sardinia with my family; I spend at least six months of the year there. Six months working and six months relaxing – I think that is a great balance.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 December 2022 source ↗