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

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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.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 March 2019 source ↗

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Björn Ulvaeus Swedish musician
My surname. You have no idea how many versions I’ve read and heard. It was especially irritating during my Abba years. You can imagine someone calling our hotel and saying: “I’d like to speak to one of the guys in Abba.” Who do you think the receptionist called, Andersson or Ulvaeus?
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 June 2020 source ↗
Belinda Carlisle American singer
I wouldn’t take back the drugs, but there are a few boyfriends that I’d edit out of my life.
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