JK
No one I can think of, but lots of people no longer living.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 May 2019 source ↗
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Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?Originally asked
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Danielle Steel
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My agent Mort Janklow, Sidney Poitier, and Barbara Walters.
Chris Ware
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For intellect: Art Spiegelman. For art: Robert Crumb. For poetry and vision: Gary Panter. For decency: Barack Obama. For genuine goodness: Charles Burns. For genius: Charlie Kaufman. For soulfulness and love: Lynda Barry. For words: Zadie Smith. For unique life's work and superhuman effort expended: Ira Glass, Dave Eggers.
David Guetta
French DJ
People worship music artists or actors but I have a lot of admiration for doctors, people who save lives.
Chlöe Swarbrick who is co-leader of the New Zealand Greens. She’s demonstrating the bold leadership that I look to do every single day.
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When I received my scholarship to art school in 1945.
Nothing, really, because it was all interesting.
Secretary to a lawyer. I was sacked after a week.
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.”
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