The question
Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?Originally asked
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.
The character of Frasier Crane – he's given me hours of laughter and an appreciation of the finer things in life.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 August 2010 source ↗
Steven Spielberg. I can’t think of many people who have improved the human experience as much as that one man.
The pope. I was brought up in the Catholic religion, and I think he is trying to make the church more accepting of all. He’s got a very hard job because the church is very stuck in its rightwing conservative ways.
Angelina Jolie, because she really seems to get shit done.
Oprah Winfrey. Considering the cards she was dealt at birth, what she has achieved is quite something.
Still being married to Annabel.
Jumping on the seats of a deserted carriage on a London-bound train from Canterbury in 1989.
Boothby Graffoe calling up to pester me into promoting his new album, available on Amazon and iTunes.
When my bowels move freely and without complications.
Sending a text meant for my wife to Dara O'Briain by mistake, revealing myself to be a control freak.
Sinatra's The Best Is Yet To Come.
Melissa McCarthy, Joely Richardson, James Norton, Ice-T, Jackie Chan, David Hasselhoff
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