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Letter To My Younger Self

Letter To My Younger Self

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Letter To My Younger Self

Engelbert Humperdinck: ‘I’ve lost fortunes, my dear. Fortunes’

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Letter To My Younger Self

Frankie Dettori: ‘I was a disaster. Trust me.’

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Naga Munchetty: ‘Immigrant families have to be that bit better’

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Alan Cumming: ‘My dad was a very good abuser’

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Mark Strong: ‘I started a fanzine named after a Damned song and sold copies for 5p’

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Shappi Khorsandi: ‘I’d tell my 16-year-old self, you have ADHD. That’s why you failed your GCSEs’

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Dolly Parton, Dave Grohl and Billie Piper feature in Letter To My Younger Self paperback

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Billy Bragg: ‘There’s nothing worse than giving in to your own cynicism’

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Roger Taylor: ‘I just wish I’d got to say goodbye to Freddie’

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Big Issue sellers share words of advice for their younger selves

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Sabrina Cohen-Hatton on her journey from homelessness to fire chief – via The Big Issue

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Terry Hall: ‘The Specials have always been about protest’

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Andy Murray on childhood, success and the advice his daughter gave him

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Actor Samuel West: ‘I was a rebellious 33-year-old’

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Paul McGann: ‘Doctor Who couldn’t have worked out better’

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‘I had to flee Afghanistan when I was just 12’

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Jonathan Edwards: ‘It almost feels like somebody else’s life’

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Peter Ackroyd: ‘When I was young I wanted to be Pope’

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Joan Armatrading: ‘I didn’t know I was breaking ground’

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Ricky Ross: ‘You can avoid real life, and still get paid!’

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