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The first 12 years of school. I was very unhappy. I was not academic, so I played the fool till I was 16.
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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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Oliver Sacks
Neurologist and writer
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?
Paterson Joseph
British actor and author
I wouldn’t live so long in France. After eight years, I came back to London.
Rachel Whiteread
English artist
I would have thought more about exercise and a healthy lifestyle in my 20s, 30s and 40s.
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.
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