David Harewood
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I would have had a bit more belief in myself: I would have reached for America sooner.
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I would have honoured my body, I would have lived inside it, cherished it and protected it.
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Ian McEwan
British novelist and screenwriter
To have grown up with my siblings. They were at least 10 years older than me.
I would tell myself to stop being such a worrier.
Tracey Ullman
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I would have stopped making records after They Don’t Know.
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That most men have not yet come to understand the impact and the devastating consequences of violence against women.
Nine years ago I discovered I had stage 3/4 uterine cancer and went through nine months of excruciating surgery, illness and chemotherapy. In that time, I touched death and it was the most powerful transformation of my life. I was forced to learn to take care of my body.
Going off all technology.
In my 60s. So many things that tortured me when I was younger have fallen away. Writing The Apology, the letter I wrote in my father’s voice, apologising for abusing me, has freed me from the last vestiges of anger, confusion, rancour and hate. It released me from a frame that had determined my life.
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