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 Sam Neill said elsewhere, not written here
My brother, Michael. He is an academic and has devoted his life to scholarship; my life seems trivial by comparison. Bastard.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 June 2016 source ↗

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Garrison Keillor
My president, a heroic figure—also good- humored, pretty smart, elegant; and if the rest of the world thinks he typifies America, I don’t mind at all.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2009 source ↗
Laurence Fox English actor and activist
My mum, because she raised five children. I am raising two and it’s hard work.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 December 2019 source ↗
Monica Ali British writer, novelist
Clive Stafford Smith. He campaigns for prisoners on death row in the US.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 April 2011 source ↗
Sadiq Khan Mayor of London since 2016
Mo Farah represents everything that’s great about our country.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 September 2016 source ↗

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