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I'd have concentrated a bit more at school and maybe gone to university rather than drama school.
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Bill Bryson
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Nothing. It’s too risky. What if you eliminated a misjudged situation from your life and it turned out that one of your children wasn’t born, or you failed to meet your partner?
Marie Kondo
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I don’t have anything that I want to change. I’m sure I did in the past but I can’t recall, which means it wasn’t that big a deal.
Nothing at all.
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The death of my wife: I’d happily have gone first.
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I was on a plane in India and I thought it was going to crash. It was an old, rickety thing. It was pre-children - I wouldn't do it now.
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Something by Nick Drake.
Losing my family in some way.
To stand up tall and aim for what you want.
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