Which living person do you most admire, and why?

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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.

Recorded Brett Anderson said elsewhere, not written here
My wife. She is the most beautiful person I know in every way and has an endless energy for other people that a vinegary old misanthrope like myself can only marvel at.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 September 2011 source ↗

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Susan Greenfield British scientist
An Italian neuroscientist called Rita Levi-Montalcini. She is now over 100. Under Mussolini she was forbidden from practising medicine because of the race laws. So she set up a lab in her basement, and the work she did there laid the foundations for her winning the Nobel prize.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 December 2011 source ↗

Bryan Ferry British singer
Richard Hamilton – as my teacher at college, he greatly influenced my ways of seeing art and the world.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 October 2010 source ↗

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Right now. It's a beautiful thing to find yourself "the wrong side of 40" and more in love with life than ever. I never tell people this publicly as they wrongly assume the only valid creative state is that of the cliche of the tubercular, tortured artist coughing up blood in his garret.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 September 2011 source ↗

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