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.
Artists who do their own thing, without compromise: Ken Loach, Bob Dylan and James Kelman.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 December 2016 source ↗
Mum and Dad – they've done a pretty good job raising us kids.
Probably David Hockney, for achieving a perfect balance of life and work; for making great pictures; being charitable; and remaining bloody-minded.
Gloria Steinem, because her whole life has been spent trying to help people.
Putin. Because he is so comfortably who he is.
When you can barely stand to look at someone without turning away to catch your breath.
When a pal grabbed hold of me as I fell into an unbanistered stairwell at a rave. Would have been curtains, but for his sharp reaction.
There’s been the odd beauty on the dance floor I really ought to have gone home with.
I haven’t achieved anything of note yet.
Laying down slabs for the council.
Happiness is mostly intrinsic: you’re either a happy soul or a miserable bastard. Fortunately, I’m the former.
Danielle Steel, Zadie Smith, Gok Wan, Julia Donaldson, Mark Gatiss, Rose Tremain
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