None. Unfortunately, we are in an age of antiheroes.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2014 source ↗
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Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?Originally asked
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Sofie Gråbøl
Danish actress
Jens Stoltenberg, for the way he united Norway after the massacre on Utøya in 2011.
Gabor Maté. He is very eloquent and articulate about the role of trauma in our lives.
Ken Loach
English retired filmmaker
Tony Benn, for moving to the left throughout his life rather than to the right.
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.
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Being poor—or, worse, having Kelsey Grammer fight with Teddy Kennedy over who is to drive me home.
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