Which living person do you most admire, and why?

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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.

Recorded Olivia de Havilland said elsewhere, not written here
Nelson Mandela.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2005 source ↗

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Yayoi Kusama Japanese artist
I am in my ninth decade, so most people I have admired are no longer alive.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 May 2016 source ↗
Isaac Mizrahi
Ricky Gervais. I’m saying that so he might read this and cast me in something.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2022 source ↗

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Thrust into my profession without any training whatsoever, I had to just flounder and just find my way. It was an agonizing experience. It’s like jumping off a diving board in the Olympic contest without knowing how to swim or dive, and I just had to find my way. So one day, I said to Jimmy Cagney, “Jimmy, what is acting?” and he said, “I don’t know.” He said, “All I can tell you is whatever you say, mean it,” and I thought that marvelous counsel.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, Washington, D.C., 5 October 2006 source ↗

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