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.
My son Quinton. He’s working behind the scenes in the picture biz and he’s done it all on his own.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 November 2015 source ↗
The Dalai Lama.
Jo Brand. She’s a fighter, she’s successful, she’s a straight talker; she cares about people.
Pope Francis, who left the Vatican to wash the feet of non-believers.
Michelle Obama (not that Barack wouldn’t be right up there). She seems genuinely to enjoy her life and do the best with all the tasks that she sets her mind to.
Dozens of women – I think you’ll figure out why.
I wouldn’t have done the naked centrefold in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1972.
The psalm would be the 23rd. I’ll have to think about the song.
He gave people laughter.
When I was under contract to Universal Pictures in 1959, just before I got my role on Riverboat.
Samuel West, Alice Eve, Julia Stiles, Rory Kinnear, Karamo Brown, Rhys Ifans
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