Monica Ali: Which living person do you most admire, and why?

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.

Recorded Monica Ali said elsewhere, not written here

Clive Stafford Smith. He campaigns for prisoners on death row in the US.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 April 2011 source ↗

Others on this question

Eugene Levy Actor and writer

Deborah Divine.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2019 source ↗

My mom, for her unflappable ability to be sanguine (though she sometimes dips into Pollyanna territory).

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2021 source ↗

Richard Bacon English television and radio presenter

Sheryl Sandberg at Facebook.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 August 2015 source ↗

Aung San Suu Kyi, Caetano Veloso, Terry and Jo Harvey Allen, Ford Wheeler, Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning. My late father.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2014 source ↗

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