The question
If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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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I would have spent every single day with my sister before she left to live in New Zealand. At my wedding, it was the first time I had seen her in two and a half years.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 January 2017 source ↗
That moment in Bilbao in 2020, when I tried to cross the street and did a pirouette and suffered a dreadful break in my right leg, which means now I have 10 screws and a band in it.
I would definitely change the way one or two relationships ended.
I made too much money in my 30s, and it distorted my writing and made me less hungry. Then, in my 40s, I spent all the money on daily life – and now I don’t have it.
I wouldn’t because everything is connected with everything else.
A Rolex, after London 2012.
Stephen Hawking: what he does is incredible. My nan died of motor neurone disease, which he has.
I’m proud of my achievements at the Olympics. But I prepare in exactly the same way for every race.
I’ve never had a job.
On my wedding day.
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