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.
It’s hard to beat David Attenborough. Everything he does is quality. I like people who make me proud to be British.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 January 2019 source ↗
Brian May, because of his love of wildlife and love of music. He’s a kind, gentle soul.
Myself – why not?
Anyone who is risking their life to cross a body of water with their family to escape war.
It’s a tie between Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr., Wole Soyinka, and Oprah Winfrey. All are fearless, all know themselves, all have examined themselves, and all are comfortable with what they have seen.
“I don’t love you.”
Thinking about all the worst possible things: losing people, dying, how am I going to die? All that sort of stuff. I stay awake thinking about furniture and shoes as well. It’s not all death.
The Wimpy in Kingston when I was 16. I’d recently become vegetarian, and there weren’t many veggie burgers in 1988.
I love clothes and accoutrements, so it would be either a suit or a watch. I love Mark Powell in Soho, and Paul Smith.
When I am in Italy with the family, not thinking about work.
I wanted to be a footballer and then a squash player – I was in with a chance because I was very good. But I fell out of love with that by 14 or 15 and joined a youth theatre.
Isla Fisher, Dan Aykroyd, Mel Giedroyc, Rob Delaney, Brian Cox, Terry Gilliam
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