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I would have taken more drugs.
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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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Marie Kondo
Japanese organizing consultant, author, and television show host
I don’t have anything that I want to change. I’m sure I did in the past but I can’t recall, which means it wasn’t that big a deal.
Florence Welch
British singer
Perhaps a few drunken incidents – but I’ll keep the coat.
Ethan Hawke
Actor, director and novelist
Too many things to mention.
That Sparks predates the Beatles and it’s kind of all too obvious where they got a lot of their inspiration.
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My own bad prose.
He knows who he is. I’ve apologised. I wish it made more difference.
Getting exactly what I wanted.
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