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My mom. She has been a fashion designer and run a catering business.
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Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?Originally asked
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Olly Alexander
English singer and actor
Jill Nalder. Lydia West played her character in It’s a Sin. She was on the wards with nurses caring for patients who were dying [of Aids] when lots of people wouldn’t go near them.
Beth Ditto
American singer
There are far too many to choose.
Steve Jobs
Co-founder and chief executive of Apple; co-founder of NeXT; chief executive of Pixar
You know, Dr. Edwin Land was a troublemaker. He dropped out of Harvard and founded Polaroid. Not only was he one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that.
Mellody Hobson
Co-chief executive and president of Ariel Investments
I really appreciate the fact, and I constantly tell Reverend Jackson and Reverend Sharpton that I appreciate the fact that they're fighting for us, because I am an accident of birth.
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