Adrian Dunbar
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Not having come from a class that understands how the world works.
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I was brought up Catholic, to believe that marriage is for life. And we failed.
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Cynthia Nixon
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When I was about 15, I auditioned to play Alice In Wonderland on Broadway, and they cast someone else. I never got over it.
Melissa McCarthy
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That in 2019 we’re still dealing with people hating people or people wanting to keep women down. That we haven’t evolved past that is a huge disappointment.
Ivan Lendl
Czech and American tennis player
Plenty of matches got away, but there’s nothing I can do about it, so why worry?
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View profile →Walking in the rainforest with my mother, back in Nicaragua. She loved it, and inspired me to devote much of my life to protecting the environment.
To my daughter, because she felt that I spent too much time saving other children. I would go to war zones and travel the world for human rights work, and she was missing me.
I sometimes wish I had had the courage to be a politician – but I made the decision to be a human rights defender instead. I realised I cannot be both at the same time, because they may be incompatible.
More sleep, less stress.
The climate catastrophe.
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