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David Hare – he’s always fascinating and funny.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 May 2020 source ↗
The question
Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?Originally asked
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The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
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Alison Goldfrapp
English musician and record producer
Anyone who is a carer.
Fran Lebowitz
American author and public speaker
At the moment, Ukraine’s president.
Stuart Broad
English former cricketer and commentator
Sienna Miller. For obvious reasons!
Shirley Hughes
English illustrator and author
My sons for their bravery, and my daughter and daughters-in-law for being working mothers and always being able to make me laugh.
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Being exquisitely alive.
As an interesting, amusing father by my children.
Rufus Wainwright’s Get Happy.
In the early 90s, in the Andes, caught in an atrocious storm above 20,000ft with three others. We were all in a very bad way. Some guys close to us perished; we were lucky.
A case of Chateau Margaux 59.
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