Jennifer Hudson
American singer and actress
Around the holidays, because I get to spend them with family and friends.
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What would you like to be remembered for?
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What song would you like played at your funeral?
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
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On a walking safari in the middle of the Kenyan bush. I had no phone, no mirror, nothing, and I was really happy because I had no distractions.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 March 2019 source ↗
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Sally Mann
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On the island of Bequia—one summer, out of the blue, a benefactor (thank you, Charlene) flew our entire family there and put us up in a cliffside house that was a weird mixture of Gaudí and Fred Flintstone and where we went to sleep at eight and got up at five. In between we read, swam, hiked, and unknowingly enjoyed the last moment before the irrevocable shear of adolescence set in.
Watching my sons ski down a mountain for the first time.
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For persevering, and being a good role model.
The whole of The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill.
They are already things I work on: routine and less sugar.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – everything she writes speaks to me. Her Ted talk, We Should All Be Feminists, inspired everything I do with Gurls Talk.
Nothing. Everything’s got me to this point and I had to learn lots of things. Maybe I just wouldn’t have been so terrified all the time and I would have got up a bit earlier – I missed quite a few mornings.
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