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That I wasn’t quite as arrogant when I got successful.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 July 2022 source ↗
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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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I would have stopped making records after They Don’t Know.
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I would have taken more drugs.
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?
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That I’m still here.
The back end of a horse in panto in Newcastle in 1979.
Premature demise.
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