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.
It’s hard to beat David Attenborough. Everything he does is quality. I like people who make me proud to be British.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 January 2019 source ↗
Bob Dylan: his great gift as a poet and musician, his long, incorruptible career—and he continues to tour constantly.
Sickeningly, it’s probably my wife, because she’s a legend.
My grandmother, Marianne Karlsson.
Stacey Dooley. She does incredible documentaries – in one, she took spoiled British kids to the Philippines to work in a factory. It’s exactly what my kids need to watch.
The Wimpy in Kingston when I was 16. I’d recently become vegetarian, and there weren’t many veggie burgers in 1988.
I love clothes and accoutrements, so it would be either a suit or a watch. I love Mark Powell in Soho, and Paul Smith.
A really careful lobotomy, to switch off bits of my brain.
I wanted to be a footballer and then a squash player – I was in with a chance because I was very good. But I fell out of love with that by 14 or 15 and joined a youth theatre.
When I am in Italy with the family, not thinking about work.
“I don’t love you.”
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