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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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Alfre Woodard
Recorded said elsewhere, not written here
My dear friend Eve Plotkin, supervising attorney at the N.Y. Legal Aid Society, head of the Family Law Unit for 25 years.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2022 source ↗

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Craig David British singer
My manager and friend Colin Lester, who has protected me through the good times and the bad.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 November 2016 source ↗
Irvine Welsh Scottish novelist
Artists who do their own thing, without compromise: Ken Loach, Bob Dylan and James Kelman.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 December 2016 source ↗
John Lewis U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1987–2020; Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 1963–1966
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.
Recorded Vanity Fair, Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 6 December 2019 source ↗
Lleyton Hewitt Australian professional tennis player
Greg Norman, for the way he handles winning and losing.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 July 2016 source ↗

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