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 friend Ian McKellen, who has an extraordinary record as an actor and a gay activist.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 August 2019 source ↗
Barack Obama, because he believed he could be president of the United States, and he succeeded. He was kind, and he tried to set a high standard of leadership.
Well, Frank Sinatra’s gone, so the rest have to stand in line.
Sheryl Sandberg at Facebook.
Peyton Manning.
The coming out letter I wrote in Tales Of The City – it seems to be the thing that’s going to last after I’m gone.
I would have come out earlier.
Not a lawyer, which was what I told everyone, because my father wanted me to be one.
As a kind man who told good stories.
Reece Shearsmith, Ruth Jones, Ronald Harwood, Julian Clary, Jane Asher, Fran Lebowitz
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