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.
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.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 July 2023 source ↗
All the NHS workers, care home staff and teachers who are the real superheroes of 2020.
My wife, Grace.
My mother, because now I have two sons and I have help around me – including my family – I can't imagine having four little ones under the age of nine, as she did.
Sister Alice Marie Quinn, who runs St. Vincent Meals on Wheels in Los Angeles.
That I go to the gym a couple of times a week, yet I am unfit and overweight.
That there are more important things than being right.
Being able to buy my parents a house.
An improvement in the weather in this country.
When I finished the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, I bought a replica of the car. It’s in my front garden, surrounded by a lovely wildflower meadow, and people stop to look at it.
Someone once said online that they hated me so much they wanted to stab me with a spoon. A knife’s easy, but a spoon – that takes real hatred.
Sinéad O'Connor, Julian Lennon, Kate Nash, Hans Zimmer, Sheridan Smith, Candi Staton
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