The question
If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.
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That moment in Bilbao in 2020, when I tried to cross the street and did a pirouette and suffered a dreadful break in my right leg, which means now I have 10 screws and a band in it.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2024 source ↗
I’d edit out all my gauche incomprehension.
I wouldn’t have tried to break up a fight when I was 17.
I would edit my worry, because I suffer from anxiety, which ruins some moments.
I might have carried on doing The Voice.
I cleaned the toilets at the local pub every Saturday morning.
One horrible afternoon in Chicago when I forgot my words in The Marriage of Figaro, in a role I’d sung hundreds of times.
Thinking that singing makes me fit.
Unfriendliness.
In 2006, I went fishing for red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico. On the way back, one of the engines caught fire and then we had one engine for 70 miles. Slowly but surely, we got to Baton Rouge in the darkness but then got very close to a very large passing ship – they didn’t see us and we didn’t see them.
Absolutely nothing.
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