Beth Ditto: Which living person do you most admire, and why?

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.

Recorded Beth Ditto said elsewhere, not written here

There are far too many to choose.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 July 2012 source ↗

Others on this question

My wife (Borat voice).

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2017 source ↗

Pedro Almodóvar, for being loyal to his personality as an artist against all the odds.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2019 source ↗

Neneh Cherry Swedish singer

My grandmother, Marianne Karlsson.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 June 2014 source ↗

Paul Theroux American travel writer and novelist

The Buddhist monk Tapa Snim I met in Burma in 2007, all of whose earthly possessions he carried in a small bundle slung on one shoulder.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 May 2013 source ↗

I would still be at home. I wouldn’t want to travel anywhere because the roads would be chaos.

Recorded Clash, Swan Song, 14 September 2012 source ↗

When everyone else is happy.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 July 2012 source ↗

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