Gloria Steinem.
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The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
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Alan Bennett, because he has been such a huge influence on me.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 February 2016 source ↗
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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. It doesn’t seem anyone has a bad word to say about him. They should let him be president – of the world. We had a brief Twitter chat, and I printed the tweets out and put them on my office wall.
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None. Unfortunately, we are in an age of antiheroes.
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Sherlock being such a worldwide phenomenon.
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