Sofia Coppola
American filmmaker and actress
A magazine editor like Diana Vreeland.
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
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I always wanted to be a rapper.
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Sonia Sotomayor
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 2009–present
My diabetes. You couldn’t go into law enforcement [with that illness]. Now I believe in some police forces you can do that. It wasn’t possible back then. But for a then-8-year-old to have my ambition — my dream — destroyed, broke my heart.
A comedian, and I may have achieved that.
Jennifer Hudson
American singer and actress
I always wanted to be a singer.
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View profile →To my father, for the time that was lost when we weren’t getting along. We were able to reconcile a few months before he passed away five years ago.
I bought myself a diamond pinky ring for two million dollars.
When I was young and carefree, before I realised what the obstacles were that we face as black people. I was raised in a beautiful home with incredible parents. They allowed me to enjoy what it was to be a child.
Creating. When everyone goes to bed and then you have six or seven hours to create peacefully. I’ve become nocturnal. Even on a night when I am not in the studio, I still won’t go to sleep till six in the morning.
To be in a position to empower my entire family with generational wealth.
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