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Jo Brand. She’s a fighter, she’s successful, she’s a straight talker; she cares about people.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 May 2016 source ↗
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Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?Originally asked
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The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
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President Zelenskyy.
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American fashion designer
Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute. The work he and the team are doing to reduce extreme poverty is phenomenal.
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With a blue plaque.
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Mozart’s clarinet concerto from the Out Of Africa soundtrack.
The double marathon on the last day of my 27 marathons in 27 days.
The UK voting for us to stay in Europe on 23 June.
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