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Nothing, really, because it was all interesting.
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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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Vicky McClure
English actress
I wasted a year doing nothing at 18. I got with a guy and just wanted to hang out. It didn’t do me any favours.
Mark Gatiss
British actor and writer
I was a very lazy child, but I think I’ve made up for it by being a workaholic. I might push some of the work back to my childhood.
Katharine Hamnett
English fashion designer
Boarding school. It was horrible.
Edwina Currie
Former British politician, broadcaster and writer
I would be richer, I’d have beaten Mrs Thatcher’s ban on women in the cabinet, and I would be a dame.
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Not having longer legs.
Secretary to a lawyer. I was sacked after a week.
My parents. We didn’t realise how absolutely desperate they were when we left Germany, because my father couldn’t earn anything. A letter turned up fairly recently in which he said, “We’ve been through a terrible time because Julia [my mother] never stopped talking about suicide and not just for herself, but to take the children with her.”
When I received my scholarship to art school in 1945.
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