The question
If you could edit your past, what would you change?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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Writer and philosopher; founder of The School of Life
I'd take a course in bread-making and open a small bakery.
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 March 2009 source ↗
Nothing at all.
A few haircuts.
Nothing: the good times, the bad times, they make your character.
Not being able to have a baby for two and a half years. Lots of people say it made me a better person; I think it made me worse. You go to a very dark place with your friends because they are having kids, and you want to be happy for them but you’re not.
Be ambitious beyond merely dreaming of the first book being published. Already now try to imagine where you want this to go, where you want to be at 60.
Roland Barthes' 'Camera Lucida'.
I believed that the real challenge in love was finding ‘the right one’. I now realise that it’s not a case of finding the right one, so much as learning to love rightly.
I came from a family where books were highly valued, and that set me on the path of reading. Also, my family got out there and did stuff, and so I grew up feeling that you could change things and get things done if you worked hard.
A few years ago, I started wearing this as a uniform of sorts. It has removed all my anxieties about clothing. I now know what I'll be wearing in both summer and winter.
To make www.theschooloflife.com a global brand (to open a branch in Australia). To make www.living-architecture.co.uk flourish. To write good books.
David Hare, Judith Kerr, Sandi Toksvig, Jack Whitehall, Adam Kay, Mary McCartney
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