JN
Greta Thunberg, for obvious reasons.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 July 2022 source ↗
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.
Others on this question
View all 407 →
Patti Smith
Musician, poet and photographer
The artist Gerhard Richter.
Jacinda Ardern, the former New Zealand prime minister – for embodying a different, more compassionate politics.
Dawn O'Porter
British writer, director, and television presenter
My Auntie Jane. She took me in, aged 10, and, after my mother died, healed my broken heart by filling our dining room with food and people. Still cooking at the grand old age of 89. My icon.
Alison Goldfrapp
English musician and record producer
Anyone who is a carer.
More from James Norton
View profile →Finding something that I love doing and getting paid for it.
A Rose Wylie painting.
Rats. We had one swim up our loo recently, it was horrific.
My 13-year-old self, for all the resentment.
On a plane, watching a movie.
With smile lines.
More on values & belief
- What trait do you most dislike in other people? 193 answers
- What does everyone in your world seem to agree on that you think is wrong? 80 answers
- What are you unwilling to optimise? 30 answers
- What belief do you hold that most people around you would reject or find surprising? 19 answers
- What has life taught you about being human? 15 answers
- Which virtue do you think people overrate? 10 answers
Also answered this
Dan Aykroyd, Billie Piper, Nicholas Hoult, Mark Gatiss, Ben Kingsley, Sam Neill
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All values & belief questions
- The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject