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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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Esther Rantzen
Recorded said elsewhere, not written here
Alan Bates, Lord Arbuthnot and Nick Wallis for exposing the Post Office and Fujitsu and, let’s hope, for ensuring everyone is properly compensated.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 February 2024 source ↗

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Johanna Konta British tennis player
My parents, because they did what they did to give me the opportunities to do what I do. They left their lives behind in Australia and started again in their 40s in a new country.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 June 2018 source ↗
Abi Morgan Welsh playwright and screenwriter
Malala Yousafzai, Gloria Steinem, Meryl Streep – all suffragettes, in their own way.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 October 2015 source ↗
Willem Dafoe Actor
Bob Dylan: his great gift as a poet and musician, his long, incorruptible career—and he continues to tour constantly.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2014 source ↗

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Maybe I should have agreed to take the job of controller of BBC One when Bill Cotton offered it to me. I do feel a wimp; I would have been the first woman in the job.What do you consider your greatest achievement? I don’t really claim credit, I hope, for helping to launch Childline and the Silver Line and Silver Stories. It is an achievement that they all exist, but that is down to their amazing teams.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 February 2024 source ↗

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