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

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Recorded Jodi Picoult said elsewhere, not written here
I would not let Nick Cassavetes direct My Sister’s Keeper, the film. He said [the ending] was going to match what was in the book, then changed it.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 September 2022 source ↗

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Julia Stiles American actress
I’d have been less precocious as a child (you grow up fast in New York). I’d have prolonged the naivety.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 July 2015 source ↗

Bill Bryson American-British author
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?

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 February 2016 source ↗

Felicity Jones British actress
I wouldn’t change anything. Life is what it is, you just have to get on with it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 May 2023 source ↗

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