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 nan. She lost her husband at the end of 2019 and over the past year she’s been in isolation, but every single week when we speak, she’s full of hope.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 March 2021 source ↗
Anyone who speaks truth to power at the risk of their own safety.
Either Stevie Wonder or Willie Nelson. Hopefully, no explanation required.
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.
I love and admire Julia Roberts, one of our Running Wild guests, for the way she has a few close friends, is loyal to her family, doesn’t believe in all the fame stuff and can laugh at herself.
My wedding day last year. It was supposed to be 4 April and, in the end, it was 12 September.
My password. [In 2014, Brown Findlay’s iCloud account was hacked.]
During lockdown, I found out I wasn’t pregnant any more.
The thought of infinity.
Spending over half my life under Tory rule.
My younger self: I had no love for her and I was cruel and she never deserved it.
Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley, Sam Neill, Billie Piper, Nicholas Hoult, Mark Gatiss
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