Tom Ellis
Welsh actor
Barack Obama. On a daily basis he faced racism, and I admire him for trying to push through that to better his nation.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
My mum, because she’s been a nurse for over 40 years. She works in a hospice, and there’s no bullshit with her.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 May 2019 source ↗
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British summers give me a really happy feeling. My bedroom at our family home in Harrow looks out on to our garden and a cricket field, and you just know when it’s the first day of summer.
Everyone I ever met in 2007, because I was definitely about two hours late.
I had heart surgery when I was 17. The other time was when I fell off my piano. My head was an inch away from a metal step.
That all the cliches about people in the music industry are true.
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