Guy Pearce
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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.
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I'd have a good, encouraging start in school – I think I'd be a different person, with fewer anxiety attacks.
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I couldn’t do it. I realised recently that all the things that have gone wrong are just as important as all the things that went right.
Douglas Stuart
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My mother and my brother would still be alive. So much of my life has been coping with the grief of losing them.
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The years between 13 and 17, which I think are very formative, and the rather arid public school upbringing I had at Harrow.
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Most recently, going to a 1D concert at Wembley with my nine-year-old daughter. Seeing her dream becoming real. The highlight was meeting a nice man in the elevator when it was over, who gave her Harry's autograph. Turned out to be his dad. To my daughter that was like meeting the archangel Gabriel.
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