No one I can think of offhand.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Daily life
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. It doesn’t seem anyone has a bad word to say about him. They should let him be president – of the world. We had a brief Twitter chat, and I printed the tweets out and put them on my office wall.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 July 2023 source ↗
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Suzi Quatro
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My sister Arlene, who is 75 and on marriage number seven. I admire her hopefulness.
Patricia Hodge
English actress
The Queen. Her like has not been seen before and I doubt it will ever be again.
Yayoi Kusama
Japanese artist
I am in my ninth decade, so most people I have admired are no longer alive.
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View profile →When I finished the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, I bought a replica of the car. It’s in my front garden, surrounded by a lovely wildflower meadow, and people stop to look at it.
That there are more important things than being right.
Being able to buy my parents a house.
Someone once said online that they hated me so much they wanted to stab me with a spoon. A knife’s easy, but a spoon – that takes real hatred.
That I go to the gym a couple of times a week, yet I am unfit and overweight.
An improvement in the weather in this country.
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