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 wife, Hannah. She’s amazing and keeps me in check. I met her 24 years ago at drama school.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 April 2018 source ↗
Mandela. Also, artists and painters. I admire people who are creative.
Mike Leigh: his work is important.
Steven Spielberg. I can’t think of many people who have improved the human experience as much as that one man.
You know, Dr. Edwin Land was a troublemaker. He dropped out of Harvard and founded Polaroid. Not only was he one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that.
Warm contentment, and like nothing else exists.
I worked in a TGI Fridays when I was 19 and came to London for the first time. It was absolutely horrible and I got fired after two weeks.
Liverpool losing the FA Cup final to Wimbledon when I was a kid. It made me cry.
I was knocked over by a taxi in Liverpool when I was seven. And I fell off the seventh storey of a car park when I was 10 and broke both legs, my collarbone and my arm.
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