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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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Helen Mirren
Recorded said elsewhere, not written here
Sister Alice Marie Quinn, who runs St. Vincent Meals on Wheels in Los Angeles.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2010 source ↗

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Reece Shearsmith British actor, comedian and writer
There's a man at the tube who hands out ShortList magazine. He has never given up trying to make me take one. I admire that.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 August 2014 source ↗
Grace Coddington Welsh former model and creative director
All the people I work with, people like Anna Wintour and Bruce Weber.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 September 2015 source ↗
Anne Enright Novelist and short-story writer
Catherine Corless, who spent her own money to secure birth certificates for the unrecorded dead children of the Tuam mother and baby home.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 September 2024 source ↗
James Bay English singer-songwriter and guitarist
My dad, for providing for the family for 20 years – he was a wine merchant and recently retired.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 January 2016 source ↗

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