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.
Dolly Parton. I love how she does what she wants, and lives how she wants, keeping her life so private. Also, she helped fund Covid vaccine research.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 August 2024 source ↗
Jo Brand. She’s a fighter, she’s successful, she’s a straight talker; she cares about people.
King Charles III, because he’s working hard to save our planet.
It’s a tie between Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr., Wole Soyinka, and Oprah Winfrey. All are fearless, all know themselves, all have examined themselves, and all are comfortable with what they have seen.
Either Stevie Wonder or Willie Nelson. Hopefully, no explanation required.
You have to ride the wave and never wait for it to be calm, because it never will be.
Avoidance coping.
My dad’s family, for fake drowning when I was 12 on holiday in France – it caused such embarrassment that we had to leave. All because I wanted to get the inflatable ring off my brother. It still haunts me. I guess acting was always going to be my future.
That my work has given deaf children more confidence in themselves and a sense of ownership of who they are.
Rapping the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme on national television.
If emergency train announcements were written up on the information screen. The times I ended up at the wrong destination could easily have been avoided.
Martin Freeman, Angus Deayton, Cynthia Nixon, Emilia Fox, Dominic Cooper, Sienna Miller
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