Niamh Cusack
Irish actress
I would have gone to my singing lessons at Guildhall.
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I wouldn’t have hurt as many people, and I would have thought more before speaking.
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Ronnie O'Sullivan
English snooker player
I would go back to when I was 14 and keep to my own style of playing snooker. I was perfect, but I didn’t think I was, so I started playing like everybody else and created bad habits. With a little more time, I could have been the ultimate player. I look at my career and I probably got 75% out of it instead of 100%.
Fewer night shifts.
Patrisse Khan-Cullors
American artist and activist
My mentally ill brother going to juvenile hall when he was 14. It led to his incarceration from 14 to almost 40.
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A trip to a Macedonian refugee camp that I switched out of, to go at a later date. Those who took my place were killed in a horrific car accident.
A mum, an airline stewardess or an artist.
To Sophie, for not being a better parent.
A blurred, warm state of total acceptance and joy.
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