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I wouldn't have been a bully and I'd have stood up to more bullies.
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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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Adam Lambert
American singer
I would try to work on being able to trust people more easily.
Julian Clary
English actor, comedian, novelist and presenter
My education. Benedictine monks didn’t really prepare me for the life I have lived.
Adrian Edmondson
English actor, comedian, musician and writer
I practise stoicism. Not the stiff-upper-lip, modern stuff, but the ancient Greek philosophy. You have to accept what you can’t change. I try to face forwards all the time. When that doesn’t work, I think about buying a machine gun.
Kiefer Sutherland
British and Canadian actor
I would take things a little slower.
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