Katharine Hamnett
English fashion designer
Boarding school. It was horrible.
If you could edit your past, what would you change?
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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.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 March 2016 source ↗
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Lionel Shriver
American author
I would have taken more drugs.
I’d drink less alcohol in the 90s.
Sofie Gråbøl
Danish actress
I'd have a good, encouraging start in school – I think I'd be a different person, with fewer anxiety attacks.
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