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To be born independently wealthy.
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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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Robert Glenister
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That I wasn’t quite as arrogant when I got successful.
Douglas Stuart
Scottish fashion designer and novelist
My mother and my brother would still be alive. So much of my life has been coping with the grief of losing them.
Felicity Jones
British actress
I wouldn’t change anything. Life is what it is, you just have to get on with it.
Reggie Yates
British actor and media personality
How little confidence I had in my late teens and early 20s.
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