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.
An Italian neuroscientist called Rita Levi-Montalcini. She is now over 100. Under Mussolini she was forbidden from practising medicine because of the race laws. So she set up a lab in her basement, and the work she did there laid the foundations for her winning the Nobel prize.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 December 2011 source ↗
Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani girl who was shot for advocating that girls be educated.
Putin. Because he is so comfortably who he is.
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.
Alanis Morissette because, in my earlier career, she was a big influence on me and had a feistiness that you didn’t see much of in women in the industry. Also, she has been very vocal about mental health issues.
Although I have a driving licence, I don't drive – I am very bad at it.
In 1978, working in France for a year. It was my first time working abroad.
Mario Molina, John Cleese, Luise Rainer, Greg James, PP Arnold, Jonathan Safran Foer
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