Fatima Bhutto
Pakistani writer
We don’t play songs at funerals where I’m from, but if they had to – Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean.
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When were you happiest?
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What did you want to be when you were growing up?
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What would you like to be remembered for?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Daily life
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The whole of The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill.
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Floella Benjamin
British actress, presenter, and peer
Smile by Nat King Cole.
Harriet Walter
English actress
I went to a funeral where they played Cheek To Cheek: Fred Astaire singing “Heaven. I’m in heaven… ” Everyone smiled. I’d like that.
Meg Rosoff
American novelist
Reasons To Be Cheerful, by Ian Dury.
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View profile →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.
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.
I wanted to be a cooker. Not a cook: I wanted to actually be the stove.
For persevering, and being a good role model.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – everything she writes speaks to me. Her Ted talk, We Should All Be Feminists, inspired everything I do with Gurls Talk.
They are already things I work on: routine and less sugar.
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