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		The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.
	
	  Kate Winslet Kate Winslet
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		I like writers who can show me worlds I know nothing about, but my favorites are those who create characters or worlds which feel realistic and familiar to me, or who can make me feel inspired.
	
	  Malala Yousafzai Malala Yousafzai
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		When I was growing up, I thought I was getting bored of acting, so I left that. Then after a few years, I started missing it. I left my studies mid-way, and I used to give lots of auditions.
	
	  Fatima Sana Shaikh Fatima Sana Shaikh
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		Over the years, we settled into American life and embraced it fully. But having come from a different culture, I didn't know the boundaries of American culture. Which is that, as a girl, you didn't play football or soccer at lunch with the boys, and to be cool, you didn't get into math Olympiad.
	
	  Pardis Sabeti Pardis Sabeti
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		Not all Muslims wish to express themselves in public through a communal religious identity. Identities are multiple, and some may wish to speak instead just as citizens in their professional capacity, through their political party, or their neighborhood body.
	
	  Maajid Nawaz Maajid Nawaz
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		I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to cook, I'll just read a cookbook.
	
	  Kamala Harris Kamala Harris
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		But more often than not the missing face has been sucked into the engines of the Nazi death machine, like an unlucky lapwing hitting the propeller of a Lancaster bomber-nothing left but feathers blowing away in the aircraft's wake, as if those warm wings and beating heart had never existed.
	
	  Elizabeth Wein Elizabeth Wein
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		We have people we admire, like Einstein, saying mystery is the most beautiful thing a human being can experience. Yet, everywhere in our culture, everything that is truly mysterious is immediately dismissed.
	
	  Mark Rylance Mark Rylance
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		NICHOLAS GALING DRESSED FOR THE HISTORIANS’ debate with all of his usual care. He wore green, for spring, with a waistcoat embroidered with jonquils. In deference to the gravity of the occasion, the green was dark, and he wore no lace.
	
	  Ellen Kushner Ellen Kushner
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		Boeing is a United States icon.
	
	  Alan Mulally Alan Mulally
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		Brilliant documentaries are about so much more than their subject.
	
	  Gemma Whelan Gemma Whelan