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I would like to come out at 16 or 17, and not 21.
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Too many things to mention.
Robert Carlyle
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I'd have concentrated a bit more at school and maybe gone to university rather than drama school.
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Eve Ensler
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I would have honoured my body, I would have lived inside it, cherished it and protected it.
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