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.
Anyone who can laugh at themselves.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2013 source ↗
David Attenborough, because he introduced me to the world.
Mathew Varghese, an orthopaedic surgeon who runs India’s only polio ward in Delhi. He provides reconstructive surgery to help survivors walk.
My manager and friend Colin Lester, who has protected me through the good times and the bad.
Greta Thunberg. For setting an example and fighting hatred with humour.
Flirting with danger.
Being there through thin and thin. That’s friendship treasured.
False humility.
At the altar all seven times.
Danny Alexander, Abi Morgan, Meera Syal, Sofie Gråbøl, Olly Alexander, Tony Ross
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