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.
My agent Mort Janklow, Sidney Poitier, and Barbara Walters.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2012 source ↗
My husband, Lincoln, for getting sober with me. He turned his own life around to turn mine around. We didn’t do AA, we anchored each other.
My parents for the roots; my old parish priest, Father Arthur Barrow, for the fire and the reason; Richard Curtis for the drive and humanity; and, for living in the public eye with principles, George Clooney.
My husband is the kindest, funniest, most strange and wondrous person I know.
Jacinda Ardern, the former New Zealand prime minister – for embodying a different, more compassionate politics.
Loyalty, kindness, honesty, trustworthiness, reliability.
The first 10 years of my marriage, when my children were small.
Peacefully, in good physical health, sound of mind, still active, at a great age, with my children around me.
Healthy, happy children. A wonderful, loving partner with whom to share my life.
Not always standing up for myself enough.
Losing another child. (I lost one of my sons to suicide when he was 19.)
Zadie Smith, Gok Wan, Irvine Welsh, Julia Donaldson, Greg James, Jonathan Safran Foer
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