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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.

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Joseph Fiennes English actor
Aung San Suu Kyi: an extraordinary humanitarian fighting for democracy in a Burmese dictatorship.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 October 2008 source ↗
James Bay English singer-songwriter and guitarist
My dad, for providing for the family for 20 years – he was a wine merchant and recently retired.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 January 2016 source ↗
Lee Child
The exact median middle-aged black woman in the US. If hard work guaranteed success, she’d be the most successful person on the planet. But she isn’t, yet she keeps on going.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 June 2025 source ↗

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