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No one I can think of, but lots of people no longer living.
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Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?Originally asked
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Samuel West
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Greta Thunberg. For setting an example and fighting hatred with humour.
My wife, Grace.
Sinéad O'Connor
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Muhammad Ali. I never liked him boxing; offstage, he was an archangel.
Anybody who works in frontline mental health services for the NHS.
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My parents. We didn’t realise how absolutely desperate they were when we left Germany, because my father couldn’t earn anything. A letter turned up fairly recently in which he said, “We’ve been through a terrible time because Julia [my mother] never stopped talking about suicide and not just for herself, but to take the children with her.”
Not having longer legs.
Nothing, really, because it was all interesting.
When I received my scholarship to art school in 1945.
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