Cuba Gooding Jr
American actor
President Obama: he was the first to accomplish something so great in our country as an African American.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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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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I really admire Bonnie Raitt. She is a singer songwriter who has been doing what she has been doing for so many years and she recently won the song of the year Grammy for Just Like That. I loved the validation that creativity never stops, you can keep doing the things that you love.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 April 2023 source ↗
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David Hockney, because he’s so experimental and creative. He continually reinvents himself in a really delightful way.
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Volodymyr Zelenskiy, his trajectory from performer to leading his country and then stepping up in such a magnificent way is extraordinary.
Any cancer survivor.
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Anything and everything.
That you’re stronger than you think you are.
I was opening in a play in my 20s, and my agent came on opening night, brought flowers, took me out to dinner and then told me she was no longer going to be representing me.
I was a ticket taker at the Universal Amphitheatre, an outdoor music venue. I saw everybody – Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt, Neil Young, the Eagles, Elton. But, after that, we had to clean the women’s restrooms and that was horrible. There was a lot of drinking, a lot of vomiting, a lot of very messy bathrooms.
Like waves of warm water rippling on to the shores of your heart.
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