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 Marianne Faithfull said elsewhere, not written here
Right now, PJ Harvey.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 April 2011 source ↗

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Judith Kerr British writer and illustrator
No one I can think of, but lots of people no longer living.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 May 2019 source ↗
Maureen O'Hara Irish and American actress and singer
My grandson, for taking such wonderful care of me in my old age.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2014 source ↗
Patricia Hodge English actress
The Queen. Her like has not been seen before and I doubt it will ever be again.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 September 2018 source ↗

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I’d like to see all my friends. I would have my breakfast and then I would go to Ireland and see my friends – Frank McGuinness, Penny and Desmond Guinness…all those people. I would have lunch in the castle with Penny and Desmond and maybe some other people, then in the afternoon I would go to New York and do the same thing.
Recorded Clash, Swan Song, 11 March 2011 source ↗

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