Which living person do you most admire, and why?

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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.

Recorded Sally Phillips said elsewhere, not written here
I'm flighty. Yesterday, Peter Tatchell. Today, Jennifer Saunders.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 June 2012 source ↗

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Reece Shearsmith British actor, comedian and writer
There's a man at the tube who hands out ShortList magazine. He has never given up trying to make me take one. I admire that.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 August 2014 source ↗
John Simpson English journalist
The problem with my job is that you meet people you admire and then you don’t admire them so much. The only one I carried on admiring was Nelson Mandela.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 December 2016 source ↗
Garrison Keillor
My president, a heroic figure—also good- humored, pretty smart, elegant; and if the rest of the world thinks he typifies America, I don’t mind at all.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2009 source ↗

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