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.
My agent Mort Janklow, Sidney Poitier, and Barbara Walters.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2012 source ↗
My wife, because of the lessons we’ve learned and what we have overcome over the course of our time together.
Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute. The work he and the team are doing to reduce extreme poverty is phenomenal.
My mum, for the way that she brought up her three children and managed to make her money work. She worked as a cleaner for all these families we went to church with. She would cycle there with my little sister on the back of her bike – we didn’t have a car. She had an amazing mind for planning and organising so that we got to do ballet, we went to Brownies.
David Hare – he’s always fascinating and funny.
Not always standing up for myself enough.
I wish I were braver, although I try. I work too hard and don’t play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough “fun.”
The first 10 years of my marriage, when my children were small.
Losing another child. (I lost one of my sons to suicide when he was 19.)
Loyalty, kindness, honesty, trustworthiness, reliability.
Healthy, happy children. A wonderful, loving partner with whom to share my life.
Reece Shearsmith, Ruth Jones, Jane Asher, Julian Clary, Ronald Harwood, Fran Lebowitz
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