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.
Bill Drummond, Thomas Bangalter and Jay-Z.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗
Probably David Hockney, for achieving a perfect balance of life and work; for making great pictures; being charitable; and remaining bloody-minded.
My mam, dad and sister, who have all been through an incredible amount. They’ve all had health problems and have come through with strength, grace and positivity.
An Italian neuroscientist called Rita Levi-Montalcini. She is now over 100. Under Mussolini she was forbidden from practising medicine because of the race laws. So she set up a lab in her basement, and the work she did there laid the foundations for her winning the Nobel prize.
My mum, for putting up with me all my life.
My microphone cost me six grand.
My brother was singing Yellow Submarine on stage with his class. I was singing along with them, showing off cos I knew all the words. The song ended suddenly and I was the only one in the whole hall who sang, 'We ...'
Infinite money might allow me to achieve unbounded creativity.
I'd have not sung along with Yellow Submarine in that infant school hall.
I cry all the time.
People who judge other people's actions on their own thought process.
Sharon Stone, Gregory Porter, Zoe Ball, Jason Byrne, Karamo Brown, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
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