Corinne Bailey Rae: Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?

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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.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Corinne Bailey Rae

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

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.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 September 2023 source ↗

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Ernest Borgnine

My own doctor, Paul Rudnick.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2011 source ↗

Samantha Morton British actress

Harry apart, Michael Fassbender, because his acting is beyond my comprehension and I find him absolutely fearless and inspirational.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 March 2012 source ↗

Stuart Broad English former cricketer and commentator

Sienna Miller. For obvious reasons!

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 February 2013 source ↗

Dominic West English actor

Stacey Dooley. She does incredible documentaries – in one, she took spoiled British kids to the Philippines to work in a factory. It’s exactly what my kids need to watch.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 December 2018 source ↗