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I wanted to be a cooker. Not a cook: I wanted to actually be the stove.
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In African families, you can be one of three things: a doctor, a lawyer or a failure. I wanted to be an Egyptologist, but things worked out in the end.
Katherine Parkinson
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An astronaut. I still do.
Brendan Gleeson
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Huckleberry Finn.
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They are already things I work on: routine and less sugar.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – everything she writes speaks to me. Her Ted talk, We Should All Be Feminists, inspired everything I do with Gurls Talk.
On a walking safari in the middle of the Kenyan bush. I had no phone, no mirror, nothing, and I was really happy because I had no distractions.
The whole of The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill.
Nothing. Everything’s got me to this point and I had to learn lots of things. Maybe I just wouldn’t have been so terrified all the time and I would have got up a bit earlier – I missed quite a few mornings.
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