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I’d love to have won Wimbledon.
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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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Sandi Toksvig
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I wouldn’t bother learning how to use logarithms, and I might give netball a miss.
Jessica Brown Findlay
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My password. [In 2014, Brown Findlay’s iCloud account was hacked.]
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?
I would build relationships. I would remember people’s significant moments. I would not fear closeness.
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At my oldest friend’s wedding.
Nothing is better than right now, and having a baby is no small part.
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