Which living person do you most admire, and why?

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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.

Recorded Alfre Woodard said elsewhere, not written here
My dear friend Eve Plotkin, supervising attorney at the N.Y. Legal Aid Society, head of the Family Law Unit for 25 years.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2022 source ↗

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Alexis Ohanian Co-founder of Reddit; founder of Seven Seven Six
I'm lucky now because I get to see firsthand someone who is one-of-a-kind at her craft
Recorded Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures event, Johns Hopkins Hub, 30 April 2018 source ↗
Alison Moyet English singer
My older sister, Jeanne. We fought when we were kids, but she is so entirely capable.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 June 2017 source ↗
Audra McDonald Singer and actor
Meghan Markle. I don’t know how she continues to walk through this world with the grace, strength, and purpose that she does given the unbearable amount of vitriol and hate she has been subjected to, but she does. I wish she didn’t have to.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2023 source ↗

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