My wife (Borat voice).
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2017 source ↗
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Question
When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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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Harry Evans. My opportunities to admire him are many since I am – at time of writing – still married to him.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 May 2010 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 402 →Oprah Winfrey, as Maya Angelou and Tina Turner are no longer with us. These women are Afro-American queens who, despite growing up in the racist south experiencing physical, emotional and sexual abuse, rose to the top of their professions and are an inspiration to women everywhere.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 October 2023 source ↗
Meg Rosoff
American novelist
My husband is the kindest, funniest, most strange and wondrous person I know.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2013 source ↗
Olivia de Havilland
Film actress; twice winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress
Nelson Mandela.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2005 source ↗
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View profile →In my second year at Oxford University. There was much lolling over the side of punts on the river with languid male companions plying me with cheap champagne.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 May 2010 source ↗
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