If you could edit your past, what would you change?

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Recorded Corinne Bailey Rae said elsewhere, not written here
I wouldn’t change anything. When I was 29, my first husband died, so I learned a new way of thinking about life, which is: there are many things that you can’t control.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 September 2023 source ↗

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Harriet Walter English actress
I would never have gone on a diet. I would go back with the knowledge that not being perfect is fine.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 December 2017 source ↗
Adwoa Aboah British fashion model
Nothing. Everything’s got me to this point and I had to learn lots of things. Maybe I just wouldn’t have been so terrified all the time and I would have got up a bit earlier – I missed quite a few mornings.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 March 2019 source ↗
Rosanna Arquette American actress
I would have skipped the time my daughter was nine to 13, when I was in a toxic relationship.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 August 2021 source ↗

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Question Which living person do you most admire, and why? Values & belief
My mum, for the way that she brought up her three children and managed to make her money work. She worked as a cleaner for all these families we went to church with. She would cycle there with my little sister on the back of her bike – we didn’t have a car. She had an amazing mind for planning and organising so that we got to do ballet, we went to Brownies.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 September 2023 source ↗

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