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Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?

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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.

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Cyndi Lauper
Recorded said elsewhere, not written here
Aside from my mom, my husband, and my mother-in-law, Gloria Steinem, Dorothy Pitman Hughes, and RBG.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2020 source ↗

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Michael Ball English singer, presenter and actor
Volodymyr Zelenskiy, his trajectory from performer to leading his country and then stepping up in such a magnificent way is extraordinary.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 May 2023 source ↗
Shonda Rhimes
Obama. He is a man of integrity and nobody seems to have integrity these days.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2017 source ↗
Tamsin Greig
Nick Cave for his determination to hold a space for public discourse on the deep and difficult and mysterious elements of life.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 May 2025 source ↗
David Guetta French DJ
People worship music artists or actors but I have a lot of admiration for doctors, people who save lives.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 December 2017 source ↗

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