Cynthia Nixon
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My children, and my sanity. For a child actor, I think it’s noteworthy.
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Being dad to my kids and having a family.
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When I was a kid, travelling from Ethiopia to the UK, the plane door opened, the oxygen masks came down and the plane did an emergency landing in Egypt.
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