Jane Asher
English actress and author
The amazing women standing up against the Taliban.
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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When were you happiest?
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Which moment embarrassed you most?
Failure & regret
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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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Darnella Frazier, the teenager who filmed George Floyd’s murder. It took astonishing courage to stand on the pavement in front of those policemen, and we all owe her so much.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 March 2023 source ↗
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Warren Buffett
Chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, 1970–2025
I think that Jay Powell in when, when the epidemic broke out, I think he acted in March of 2020 and I think if he'd waited two or three weeks, it would have been a disaster. Once the dominoes start toppling, they just start toppling and, and, and, and that line is shorter than anybody thinks, and it topples faster. And I think he did exactly the right thing, and he, he did it even stronger than Volker did. You know, I mean, he, he and Volker are my heroes at the Fed.
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Becky Quick, CNBC “Squawk Box”, recorded in Omaha; CNBC's own transcript of its own broadcast, 31 March 2026
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Ivan Lendl
Czech and American tennis player
People who have done really well in their sports: in tennis, Steffi Graf; in ice hockey, Wayne Gretzky.
Victoria Rose, a British surgeon operating on children in Gaza.
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View profile →To keep going and never give up, and to enjoy it to the absolute full because, at any moment, the curtain can fall.
All my clothes are secondhand, but I did buy a pair of new silver Vivienne Westwood shoes to get married in, which I still have.
Effervescence in the soul.
“You’ll never walk again.” This was when I was eight or nine and recovering from viral encephalitis.
Last summer, swimming in a waterfall in Cumbria with my daughters.
I started stammering badly the first time I was on live radio, on Woman’s Hour on Radio 4. When I think about it now it brings me out in a cold sweat.
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