"If you had to choose one moment in history in which you could be born, and you didn't know ahead of time who you were going to be — what nationality, what gender, what race, whether you'd be rich or poor, gay or straight, what faith you'd be born into — you wouldn't choose 100 years ago. You wouldn't choose the fifties, or the sixties, or the seventies. You'd choose right now."
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I think if I was born into real real poverty in the UK, I think it's kind of a bit of a fantasy that I would — I think it would be a lot more challenging for me to be sat here with you right now. And I think that people don't want to engage with that too much because also a lot of our culture is saturated with these ideas of rags to riches stories and people overcoming. And I think for the most part it's a fantasy.
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