Christy Turlington Burns
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The fact that at least 300,000 women die every year from pregnancy and childbirth-related issues that are largely preventable.
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François Ozon
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No, I’m a very bad father, I abandon all my children. (Laughs.) Right now I’m in the present, and the future – what’s past is past.
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Katharine Hamnett
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Threat of nuclear war, Iran/US situation, Syria, everything. I take sleeping pills.
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