Julia Stiles
American actress
People I went to school with who have careers as doctors and teachers.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
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What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Time & hindsight
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
Failure & regret
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Daily life
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. It doesn’t seem anyone has a bad word to say about him. They should let him be president – of the world. We had a brief Twitter chat, and I printed the tweets out and put them on my office wall.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 July 2023 source ↗
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My wife – for her intelligence, talent, ability to survive this business and be such a fantastic mother to our two kids. (Of course, I have to say that, because she’s sitting right here.)
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Sir Alex Ferguson is the most impressive person I’ve met in terms of charisma and achievement.
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That I go to the gym a couple of times a week, yet I am unfit and overweight.
That there are more important things than being right.
Someone once said online that they hated me so much they wanted to stab me with a spoon. A knife’s easy, but a spoon – that takes real hatred.
An improvement in the weather in this country.
Being able to buy my parents a house.
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