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 Joan Rivers said elsewhere, not written here
None. Unfortunately, we are in an age of antiheroes.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2014 source ↗

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Andrew Marr British journalist
Probably David Hockney, for achieving a perfect balance of life and work; for making great pictures; being charitable; and remaining bloody-minded.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 September 2012 source ↗
Pope Francis, who left the Vatican to wash the feet of non-believers.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2015 source ↗
Bruno Tonioli Italian choreographer
Oprah Winfrey. Considering the cards she was dealt at birth, what she has achieved is quite something.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 April 2023 source ↗
Audra McDonald Singer and actor
Meghan Markle. I don’t know how she continues to walk through this world with the grace, strength, and purpose that she does given the unbearable amount of vitriol and hate she has been subjected to, but she does. I wish she didn’t have to.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2023 source ↗

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