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Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?

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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.

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Allison Janney
Recorded said elsewhere, not written here
My niece, Petra Janney, who got her pilot’s license to rescue animals from rural kill shelters and have them placed with different pet adoption agencies.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2025 source ↗

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Barbara Walters
Christopher and Dana Reeve. Robert and Michelle Smithdas—teachers who are both deaf and blind. Oprah Winfrey.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2004 source ↗
Andrew Marr British journalist
Probably David Hockney, for achieving a perfect balance of life and work; for making great pictures; being charitable; and remaining bloody-minded.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 September 2012 source ↗

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