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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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Armistead Maupin
American writer
I would have come out earlier.
A few haircuts.
Robert Carlyle
Scottish actor
I'd have concentrated a bit more at school and maybe gone to university rather than drama school.
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.
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