Gillian Anderson
American actress and writer
Obama, because against all odds, he's getting the job done with grace and integrity.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Time & hindsight
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
Failure & regret
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Which moment embarrassed you most?
Failure & regret
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What does love feel like?
Relationships
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How close have you come to death?
Death & what remains
Originally asked
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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My husband, who always seems to have everything in control and is so consistent.
Abi Morgan
Welsh playwright and screenwriter
Malala Yousafzai, Gloria Steinem, Meryl Streep – all suffragettes, in their own way.
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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.
Interrupting or talking over people. As a stammerer, I am particularly alert to this.
“You’ll never walk again.” This was when I was eight or nine and recovering from viral encephalitis.
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.
Effervescence in the soul.
How long have you got? I have written a memoir and the subtitle is Seventeen Brushes with Death.
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