I have to say myself, because I know everything that he’s been through and still continues to go through. I admire him. So I vote me – I like him.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 May 2024 source ↗
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.
I have to say myself, because I know everything that he’s been through and still continues to go through. I admire him. So I vote me – I like him.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 May 2024 source ↗
My friend Josie Naughton, the co‑founder and CEO of the charity Choose Love, which supports refugees and displaced people. She left her job working for Coldplay to dedicate her life to this cause.
Anybody who invests the lion’s share of their time in helping others.
Aung San Suu Kyi: an extraordinary humanitarian fighting for democracy in a Burmese dictatorship.
My uncle, Edward Wood Dunham. He has Parkinson’s disease and faces every day with bravery, humor, and a gin-and-tonic.
Figuring out the best way to introduce the next version of myself.
A trip that was, like, $100k. It was a lot of money and I didn’t even go on it. It was to St Barts. I paid for me and my friends and a lot of stuff fell apart, and then it ended up with one of my friends just going with his girlfriend.
That I can’t control it.
Maybe on tour when I was in Argentina. Yeah, or Brazil: oh my God, those people out there.
I feel like it’s always what I’m about to do.
Whichever way people perceive me, but hopefully something good-leaning or neutral.
Jennifer Egan, Ted Danson, James Corden, Bill Bryson, Stephen Fry, Shirley Hughes
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