Judy Murray
Scottish tennis coach
When I was 17, I was offered a tennis scholarship at the University of Virginia. I wish I had been brave enough to take it.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I would have articulated aloud the comments I too often suppressed out of deference to arrogant, condescending, sexist bores.
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Jennifer Hudson
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I wouldn’t change a thing. Every experience is a lesson learned.
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I would like to come out at 16 or 17, and not 21.
Katharine Hamnett
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Boarding school. It was horrible.
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I have a penchant for happiness. I have experienced euphoria before a migraine, which may not count, but I have also felt immense happiness leaning back in a chair in sunlight, puttering in my garden, reading, dancing, immediately after giving birth and when writing.
I was a floor model briefly at Bloomingdale’s in New York in 1979. I hated it. When no one was watching, I would lock myself in the toilet and read.
The man who asked me directions on the subway seven years ago: I am so sorry for sending you to Queens rather than to the Bronx.
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