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Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?

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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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Sofie Gråbøl Danish actress
Jens Stoltenberg, for the way he united Norway after the massacre on Utøya in 2011.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 July 2014 source ↗
Sally Field Actor
Malala Yousafzai, Martina Navratilova, Misty Copeland, and Hillary Clinton.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2016 source ↗
Denise Welch
My husband, Lincoln, for getting sober with me. He turned his own life around to turn mine around. We didn’t do AA, we anchored each other.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 December 2023 source ↗

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