Elaine Paige
English singer and actress
The Queen. Long may she reign.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What are bad recommendations you hear in your profession or area of expertise?
Craft & work
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
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How would you like to die?
Death & what remains
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
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Which writers or artists most influenced your work?
Taste & recommendation
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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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Barack Obama, because he believed he could be president of the United States, and he succeeded. He was kind, and he tried to set a high standard of leadership.
Vanity Fair, Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 6 December 2019 source ↗
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Jessica Hynes
British actress and writer
Angelina Jolie, because she really seems to get shit done.
Zelenskyy for holding out against Putin.
Michael Ball
English singer, presenter and actor
Volodymyr Zelenskiy, his trajectory from performer to leading his country and then stepping up in such a magnificent way is extraordinary.
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View profile →I would come home and ask my mother, my father, my grandparents, my great-grandparents, 'Why?'. And they would say, 'That's the way it is. Don't get in the way, don't get in trouble!'
Recorded
Emory University Quadrangle, Atlanta, Speakola (speech transcript archive), 12 May 2014
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Buying art…. But it makes me happy!
I don't want to die. I don't think I'm going to die…but we all have to die. Since I do, I hope I live on in the hearts and minds of people.
My tendency to skip meals.
Jim Lawson. Jim Lawson was an unbelievable human being. Born in Ohio. He was a pacifist. He studied Gandhi. He was part of the Methodist Student Movement. He lived in India. He became an organizer for FOR, the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
Recorded
Julian Bond, Explorations in Black Leadership interview, Explorations in Black Leadership, University of Virginia
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As a participant in the movement, as I was sitting in, I came to that point where I lost all sense of fear.
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