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I might have carried on doing The Voice.
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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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Joan Jett
American singer, songwriter and guitarist
I don’t think I’d change anything: the bad forms you more than the good.
Julia Stiles
American actress
I’d have been less precocious as a child (you grow up fast in New York). I’d have prolonged the naivety.
Jason Isaacs
English actor
I wouldn’t have spent so much time trying to be a professional skateboarder or snooker player.
Cory Taylor
Novelist and screenwriter
So many times I’ve wondered what might have happened to me if I had lost my legs, or even just my right one, where my first melanoma appeared two or three years later. If I’d just been a second slower stepping away from the car, I might not be dying now. I’d be legless, of course, but still in good health. Of these fateful forks in the road are our lives made up. We are all just a millimetre away from death, all of the time, if only we knew it.
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My house by the sea to the sound of ropes pinging against boat masts and gulls on the roof. Instant coffee, white toast and watching The Wright Stuff in bed. It’s my last day! If I haven’t done it yet I don’t want to cram it all in now.
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