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I would instil confidence in my younger self.
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Alison Moyet
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I’d have made more of my education.
Oliver Sacks
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The peace of the Sabbath, of a stopped world, a time outside time, was palpable, infused everything, and I found myself drenched with a wistfulness, something akin to nostalgia, wondering what if: What if A and B and C had been different? What sort of person might I have been? What sort of a life might I have lived?
Julia Stiles
American actress
I’d have been less precocious as a child (you grow up fast in New York). I’d have prolonged the naivety.
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Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder: it would leave everyone feeling good.
Freedom: it’s euphoric.
A Feurich piano: one of the first things I bought when I could afford it.
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