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Some of those late nights.
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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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Heather Graham
American actress
I spent too many years being hard on myself, like a drill sergeant in my head. I thought that if I was hard on myself, I’d get more results, but I now know that’s not true.
Jennifer Hudson
American singer and actress
I wouldn’t change a thing. Every experience is a lesson learned.
Riz Ahmed
British actor and rapper
I would care less about what people think.
Philip Gould
Political strategist and pollster; architect of New Labour
When I thought maybe I've just got a few weeks, I thought God this is what they mean by the reckoning. I've got to sort all this stuff out in days. Is it possible to sort out all those things in your past that you'd prefer not to have done? ... But actually by going through the process we've gone through, I think we have. And it's a real blessing to have this time do that.
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