“I regret many things. To not have learned English as a boy. I had the time to have at least studied English and I didn’t do it. I deeply regret it. I experienced situations where I was with incredible and spectacular personalities to be able to talk with and have a chat and you feel half ignorant. I always thought: ‘What an idiot, how I wasted my time.’ When you’re young, you don’t realize it. Today that’s what I tell my children, [the importance of] having a good education, to study and be prepared. I always tell my children to take advantage of it. They have a different situation to the one I had although I never lacked anything…”
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