Sitting down to supper with family and close friends, either in my garden or on my boat.
Rosanna Greenstreet, Q&A, The Guardian, 8 January 2005 source ↗
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?Originally asked
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View all 167 →A long summer’s evening on the front porch with my wife, Judith, watching the hawks circling overhead and the sun disappearing through the trees.
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Christmas with my girls, my brother, my sister, and all the children.
Happiness is going to come and go, but to have a chance at intermittent happiness you need to be free from fear. In our culture, in our day, we can lose sight of what a rare gift that is: to live free from fear
First of all, to be in love. The second way of being very happy is to be able to get the best out of yourself, whatever it is.
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View profile →Eric Idle’s Always Look on the Bright Side of Life. That’s me, really.
I hope that it exists. I'm not sure I can fit everything in before then.
My old French teacher Madame Hawksworth stopped me in Ikley car park and said, 'We never thought you'd amount to much.'
That I have lost both my parents.
I'm a cryer. The family has a competition to see who can get me going at Christmas. The last time I blubbed was on my birthday, when my daughter gave me a framed photo of my 15-month-old grandson Hugo, but I have been known to shed a tear at The Railway Children or Pretty Woman.
I wish I could ban noise. Mobile phones. Aircraft. We should take our time. Why is everyone rushing?
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