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
Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.
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The 12 years I spent in receivership. That was me being a dick. I lost the court case when I wanted to sack my management and had to pay them £120,000. I said, “I am not paying you, because I should have won.”
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 August 2017 source ↗
I would do more weightlifting than aerobics. Strong is better than skinny.
I am a living self-help book – I’ve managed to train myself to never regret anything.
I would be a bit nicer to myself.
I'd have concentrated a bit more at school and maybe gone to university rather than drama school.
One Nation Under a Groove, by Funkadelic.
When I was 15 and starting my first job as a messenger boy at the post office, delivering telegrams.
In 1975, I watched the film Stardust, and Adam Faith said, “I supply the birds, the pills and the pot.” And I thought, “I want that.”
I had a gun shoved in my eyeball in New York by a crack dealer in the 1980s. I have also watched somebody next to me get shot in the head in a gun battle – that was in Jamaica in the early 1990s.
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