Suzi Quatro
American-British rock musician
My sister Arlene, who is 75 and on marriage number seven. I admire her hopefulness.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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Daily life
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What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
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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.
I have to say myself, because I know everything that he’s been through and still continues to go through. I admire him. So I vote me – I like him.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 May 2024 source ↗
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John Bishop
English comedian and actor
Bob Geldof, because he changed the perception of what people should do when they see a situation of need.
John Simpson
English journalist
The problem with my job is that you meet people you admire and then you don’t admire them so much. The only one I carried on admiring was Nelson Mandela.
Jeremy Kyle
English radio and television presenter
My dad – he's the perfect gentleman.
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Maybe on tour when I was in Argentina. Yeah, or Brazil: oh my God, those people out there.
A trip that was, like, $100k. It was a lot of money and I didn’t even go on it. It was to St Barts. I paid for me and my friends and a lot of stuff fell apart, and then it ended up with one of my friends just going with his girlfriend.
Whichever way people perceive me, but hopefully something good-leaning or neutral.
Figuring out the best way to introduce the next version of myself.
That I can’t control it.
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