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Katie Piper: 'None of my ambitions were serious as a girl. One week I wanted to be a lawyer, the next a binman.'

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Katie Piper: 'My younger self wouldn't recognise me at all. She would think I was quite serious, organised and practical, but I've had to be to run the foundation.'

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Katie Piper: 'My feminist icon is Michelle Obama. To me she represents the definition of a strong and intelligent woman who has used her platform for so much good.'

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Katie Piper: 'I don't want people to feel sorry for me or pity me - I want people to know that what got me through was human spirit and everyone has that in them.'

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Sara Pascoe: 'The definition of comedy is 'unsafe space' - you can't control what people laugh at.'

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Sara Pascoe: 'I started comedy as a hobby, really, and it still doesn't seem like a proper job.'

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Sara Pascoe: 'I'm a vegan and London's great for vegans.'

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Sara Pascoe: 'No success will ever quench your thirst - my rich person's therapist told me that.'

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Sara Pascoe: 'Backstage at the Apollo isn't a fun place to be. It's a bit like a prison: small rooms filled with warm Diet Coke.'

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Sara Pascoe: 'I'm always thinking about being inclusive in my sentences.'

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Sara Pascoe: 'Standup is a place where, as long as it's funny enough, you can say your most embarrassing things, shameful things and disappointing things.'

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Sara Pascoe: 'I thought all comedy was stupid. I went to watch a friend do stand-up and I thought absolutely everyone was terrible.'

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Sara Pascoe: 'I became a vegetarian at seven. I went on a school trip to a farm and loved the animals.'

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Sara Pascoe: 'I am very short-sighted but I don't wear my glasses as they give me a headache, so if everyone could just stand closer to me that would help.'

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Sara Pascoe: 'I was exceptionally opinionated as a teenager, never afraid to rant and ruin a birthday party or cinema trip.'

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Sara Pascoe: 'I honestly believe true happiness lies in lowered expectations. In opening the door to let the air in.'

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Ben Jonson: 'Talking is the disease of age.'

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Ben Jonson: 'Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.'

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Ben Jonson: 'This is the very womb and bed of enormity.'

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Ben Jonson: ''Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.'

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