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I’d edit out all my gauche incomprehension.
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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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Reggie Yates
British actor and media personality
How little confidence I had in my late teens and early 20s.
Lauren Laverne
English radio DJ, and television presenter
It would have been lovely to have grown up in private like a lot of my friends.
I would find a much better way of looking after my mum in her last three years of dementia. I did my best, but it was incredibly difficult to find the right kind of care unless you’ve got £3,000 a week to spend.
Samuel West
British actor, theatre director, and narrator
I’d have done everything earlier and with more style.
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I don’t care as long as everyone knows the words and joins in.
When I am completely absorbed in something, such as when I pick up my guitar and have a little sing.
Remembering to do things in order, because I have to transcend my nature, which is haphazard.
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