The floral waistcoat and shocking-pink shirt combo I wore on my 21st.
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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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Judy Murray
Scottish tennis coach
When I was 17, I was offered a tennis scholarship at the University of Virginia. I wish I had been brave enough to take it.
Patricia Hodge
English actress
Not applying myself enough at school.
Siri Hustvedt
American novelist, essayist, poet
I would have articulated aloud the comments I too often suppressed out of deference to arrogant, condescending, sexist bores.
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View profile →Cleaning around the feet of John Malkovich with industrial carpet cleaner while he was trying to learn lines in the foyer of a theatre.
Teachers at my school, for being such a smartarse.
I won a local art competition aged 10 – the first time I’d won anything.
A stuntman. Evel Knievel was an icon.
Foxes making love: it’s a very unsettling sound.
Last year, driving in California, I found myself on the wrong side of the road. I was 30 seconds away from hitting two cars coming the other way.
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