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I know I should be more evolved, but the person I would like to say sorry to I’m not ready to say sorry to yet.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 February 2023 source ↗
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Elaine Paige
English singer and actress
If I have upset someone, I have said sorry to him or her at the time.
I’ve apologised to my son, Thomas, for being absent for quite a lot of his first few years, but, as a working mother and breadwinner, I kind of had to be. I like to think I’ve made up for it.
My children, because I spent the majority of their youth away from them as I’m the breadwinner and I had to pay the bills.
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