The question
Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?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.
David Walliams, for making the transition from comic actor to bestselling kids’ author. I’m not sure I’ll be able to do the same.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 July 2016 source ↗
Barack Obama, because he believed he could be president of the United States, and he succeeded. He was kind, and he tried to set a high standard of leadership.
My Auntie Jane. She took me in, aged 10, and, after my mother died, healed my broken heart by filling our dining room with food and people. Still cooking at the grand old age of 89. My icon.
Anyone brave enough to truly be themselves.
I really appreciate the fact, and I constantly tell Reverend Jackson and Reverend Sharpton that I appreciate the fact that they're fighting for us, because I am an accident of birth.
When I won my first Oscar. Oh, wait – that was Amy Adams.
A small pair of ginger balls.
I would have tried that anti-stretch mark cream during pregnancy.
When I heard the referendum result.
Sam Neill, Ben Kingsley, Mark Gatiss, Billie Piper, Nicholas Hoult, Dan Aykroyd
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