Zelenskyy for holding out against Putin.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2025 source ↗
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Wow, so many – Robert De Niro, James Cameron, Will Smith.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 November 2010 source ↗
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John Lewis
U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1987–2020; Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 1963–1966
Barack Obama, because he believed he could be president of the United States, and he succeeded. He was kind, and he tried to set a high standard of leadership.
Recorded Vanity Fair, Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 6 December 2019 source ↗
Elmore Leonard
Novelist and screenwriter
Peyton Manning.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2012 source ↗
My dear friend Eve Plotkin, supervising attorney at the N.Y. Legal Aid Society, head of the Family Law Unit for 25 years.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2022 source ↗
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