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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

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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.

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Adrian Edmondson

English actor, comedian, musician and writer

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here
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.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 July 2018 source ↗

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Björn Ulvaeus Swedish musician
My surname. You have no idea how many versions I’ve read and heard. It was especially irritating during my Abba years. You can imagine someone calling our hotel and saying: “I’d like to speak to one of the guys in Abba.” Who do you think the receptionist called, Andersson or Ulvaeus?
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 June 2020 source ↗
Minnie Driver British and American actress
I’d edit out all the awful men I managed to find who confirmed my worst suspicions about my body and my character.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 February 2023 source ↗

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Question What is the worst job you have ever had? Craft & work
I worked in the largest pork pie factory in Europe. I had a plastic mushroom-shaped thing and had to tamp down the meat into the pie base. It was a conveyor belt of pies from nine to five. The worst thing was the crackly AM radio, which was played loudly through the tinny tannoy system. I still can’t listen to I’m Not In Love by 10cc without thinking of raw minced pork.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 July 2018 source ↗

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