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

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Recorded Isla Fisher said elsewhere, not written here
I would have tried that anti-stretch mark cream during pregnancy.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 July 2016 source ↗

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Mary McCartney English photographer and cookbook author
Through food, I’ve become more interested in the protection of soil, the way things are grown, and biodiversity. I’d have become a quantum physicist!
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 February 2022 source ↗
Tim Rice English lyricist and author
I would definitely change the way one or two relationships ended.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 March 2017 source ↗
Ronnie O'Sullivan English snooker player
I would go back to when I was 14 and keep to my own style of playing snooker. I was perfect, but I didn’t think I was, so I started playing like everybody else and created bad habits. With a little more time, I could have been the ultimate player. I look at my career and I probably got 75% out of it instead of 100%.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 May 2023 source ↗
Nothing. Tony Benn, one of my favourite politicians, said, “I don’t care where you’ve been, I care where you’re going.”
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 December 2025 source ↗

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