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I don’t have a happiest; I live in the now.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 April 2022 source ↗
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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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Sinéad O'Connor
Irish singer and songwriter
When I am performing, and when my kids make musical mayhem.
Andy Serkis
English actor
When my wife Lorraine and I got together in 1990. We were in a play at the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester when we suddenly realised we were falling in love.
Marian Keyes
Irish writer
Last Tuesday, lying on the couch, watching Schitt’s Creek with my husband. Happiness is the small, ordinary days, not the big, up-in-lights ones.
The last few years. There’s a beauty to getting to an age where you really don’t care about stuff that used to bother you.
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Mabel, my wonderful classic VW campervan.
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