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My mother: she’s an inspiration. She went back to college in her 40s, started karate and became a black belt.
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Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?Originally asked
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Susan Greenfield
British scientist
An Italian neuroscientist called Rita Levi-Montalcini. She is now over 100. Under Mussolini she was forbidden from practising medicine because of the race laws. So she set up a lab in her basement, and the work she did there laid the foundations for her winning the Nobel prize.
Kelsey Grammer
American actor
Putin. Because he is so comfortably who he is.
Julian Lennon
English musician, photographer, and philanthropist
Anyone who promotes peace.
Terry Gilliam
American-born British filmmaker
Maggie, my wife – for putting up with me.
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When I was younger, I appeared in the Halifax adverts that featured a cake or a bridge made of hundreds of people. You stood there for three days and were not even really seen.
Magical, warm, but also butterflies.
An English teacher, and then a dance teacher.
As a good person who was kind, funny, and a little bit naughty.
I am a good sleeper.
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