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 ↗
Dolly Parton – she worked her way up from nothing.
Muhammad Ali. I never liked him boxing; offstage, he was an archangel.
My wife Janet: she is the most scrupulously honest human being I have ever encountered.
Artists who do their own thing, without compromise: Ken Loach, Bob Dylan and James Kelman.
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, Adeel Akhtar, Ethan Hawke, Robert Evans, Desmond Tutu, David Baddiel
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