I would have been better with money.
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I’d stop my teenage self worrying about how my life was going to pan out.
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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.
Guy Pearce
Australian actor
I wish I could go back and not be the anxious child that I was. I spent the first 25 years of my life just trying to survive human interaction.
A few haircuts.
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To be able to cycle from my home in Chiswick [west London] to the centre of London on a fully segregated lane.
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