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.
Any cancer survivor.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2011 source ↗
Dr Denis Mukwege, because he is to sexualised violence against females what Mandela was to apartheid.
Your average aid worker, wherever they may be. Any human being doing good by helping others, while putting themselves in harm’s way.
Buzz Aldrin. I met him about 10 years ago and all I could do was look at his feet. What greater thing can you do than walk on the moon?
Harriet Harman. I know how hard it is to do what she’s doing.
If I haven’t seen them in years and yet can pick up conversation like it was yesterday.
Personal: health. Globally: nuclear weapons.
The 60s at the University of California at Santa Barbara weren’t bad.
Cuba Gooding Jr, Willem Dafoe, Gayle King, Tim Robbins, Richard Wilson, Fran Lebowitz
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