The question
If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The public mistakes I’ve made. Most recently, I tried to light an e-cigarette on an aeroplane and was told to put it out. I completely forgot I was on a plane. I’d had, like, three drinks, but it only takes three. I stopped as soon as I got off and I got straight back into my programme, because that’s what I do.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 August 2018 source ↗
It would have been lovely to have grown up in private like a lot of my friends.
In particular, my decision to sell McDonald's was a very big mistake. Overall, you would have been better off last year if I had regularly snuck off to the movies during market hours.
I was probably too cheeky to chairmen over the years.
Perhaps a few drunken incidents – but I’ll keep the coat.
I’ve been in six car accidents – none of them while I was driving.
As a complex and brilliant man.
My collection of paintings. I have some by William Burroughs.
Two days as a labourer in my 15th summer.
Wanting to be better: a better actor, a better father.
Relapsing. I usually spend eight, nine, 10 months sober, then I’ll spend a day relapsing and I get disappointed. But it never lasts too long. I get back up and try again.
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