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Right now, PJ Harvey.
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Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?Originally asked
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Annie Mac
Irish broadcaster and DJ
My parents, for still being in love after 40 years.
My friend Josie Naughton, the co‑founder and CEO of the charity Choose Love, which supports refugees and displaced people. She left her job working for Coldplay to dedicate her life to this cause.
Lisa Marie Presley
American singer-songwriter
Anyone who lives outside the box.
Tom Ellis
Welsh actor
Barack Obama. On a daily basis he faced racism, and I admire him for trying to push through that to better his nation.
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I’d like to see all my friends. I would have my breakfast and then I would go to Ireland and see my friends – Frank McGuinness, Penny and Desmond Guinness…all those people. I would have lunch in the castle with Penny and Desmond and maybe some other people, then in the afternoon I would go to New York and do the same thing.
When I was a child and a teenager, before I got discovered.
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