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		Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, "When you learn someone else's secret, your own secrets aren't safe. Dig up one, release them all.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sarah Addison Allen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Anya Hindmarch is indeed a handbag designer; she has the requisite fabulous life, tasteful home, and loving husband. She is also beautiful and self-deprecating, and has five children aged 5 to 20 and a philanthropic bent which spans causes from cancer care to Britain's Conservative Party. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kate Reardon 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gary Numan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Malorie Blackman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yoko Ono 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				P. J. O'Rourke 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		One cool thing is because Mom and Dad aren't into the Hollywood scene, they don't read 'US Weekly' or anything like that. They give me space. They don't care. They just want all of their children to be doing something that they love to do and be able to pay their insurance. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jack McBrayer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		The best thing about being Children's Laureate has definitely been all the children and teens I've met. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Malorie Blackman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have been given permission to announce that I and others from 'All My Children' have been approached by the company Prospect Park, who bought 'AMC,' with the intention to move it online. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Cameron Mathison 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Natalie Babbitt 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				F. Scott Fitzgerald 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I meet people who are determined to get into work. Who, with the right help are desperate to get off benefits, support their family and set an example for their children. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Iain Duncan Smith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Warren Buffett