When were you happiest?

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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Olivia de Havilland said elsewhere, not written here
In their company, each of us doing his/her own thing in perfect harmony.

Vanity Fair, 7 February 2005 source ↗

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Douglas Stuart Scottish fashion designer and novelist
The summer of 1997. My husband, who is an American, gave up everything to come and live with me in Edinburgh when we were students, and we were so skint but we had so much fun.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 April 2023 source ↗
June Brown English actress and author
Childhood, up until the age of seven, when my sister died.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 December 2013 source ↗
Heidi Klum German-American model and TV host
The first time I saw each of my four children’s faces.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 April 2016 source ↗

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Thrust into my profession without any training whatsoever, I had to just flounder and just find my way. It was an agonizing experience. It’s like jumping off a diving board in the Olympic contest without knowing how to swim or dive, and I just had to find my way. So one day, I said to Jimmy Cagney, “Jimmy, what is acting?” and he said, “I don’t know.” He said, “All I can tell you is whatever you say, mean it,” and I thought that marvelous counsel.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, Washington, D.C., 5 October 2006 source ↗

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