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Going through a divorce.
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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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Tim Minchin
Australian musician, writer, actor and comedian
I’d take back some dumb shit I said when I had no audience and found that being shocking made people laugh.
Mary McCartney
English photographer and cookbook author
Through food, I’ve become more interested in the protection of soil, the way things are grown, and biodiversity. I’d have become a quantum physicist!
Kiefer Sutherland
British and Canadian actor
I would take things a little slower.
Samuel West
British actor, theatre director, and narrator
I’d have done everything earlier and with more style.
More from Helen George
View profile →When I was young, I was pretty reckless – my 20s were quite hedonistic. I don’t know whether I’ve been close to death, but I may have been without realising.
Waitressing. I was so bad. I smashed things. I once mistakenly ordered a very expensive bottle of wine for a table. They thought they were ordering a very average bottle of wine, and I ordered them an £800 bottle and they drank it. I got the sack a few weeks later.
To let things go.
A grandfather clock for my partner’s birthday.
Having no purpose.
To still be working.
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