Anybody who fights for human rights or to make this world a better place. Nurses, doctors, teachers: these are the people who deserve the credit these days.
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.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2021 source ↗
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The amazing women standing up against the Taliban.
My sporting hero, Muhammad Ali.
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Being too damned self-absorbed.
A Broadway theater filled with nothing but critics.
Probably during my childhood growing up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Being in a Broadway theater full of people laughing their heads off at one of my shows.
Never picking up the check.
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