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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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Desmond Tutu
Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town; chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Nobel Peace Prize, 1984
I sent off the letter. I probably made a technical mistake by giving it to a journalist before hearing from the Prime Minister because this journalist was working for a Sunday newspaper and gave it enormous press, and I think quite rightly the Prime Minister was annoyed that I had not given him the opportunity but never mind.
Dermot O'Leary
British-Irish television presenter
I had my heart broken a lot in my teens, but I'm not sure I'd change it.
Bianca Jagger
Nicaraguan human rights advocate
I sometimes wish I had had the courage to be a politician – but I made the decision to be a human rights defender instead. I realised I cannot be both at the same time, because they may be incompatible.
What I studied at college – A-level economics.
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Not having longer legs.
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.”
No one I can think of, but lots of people no longer living.
When I received my scholarship to art school in 1945.
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