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I’ve been happy all my life.
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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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Martin Sheen
American actor
1 May 1981 in Paris, because that’s the day I was reconverted to Catholicism.
Steve Pemberton
British actor and comedian
Phoning my dad to tell him we’d won the Edinburgh Perrier award with The League Of Gentlemen in 1997.
Brian Cox
Scottish actor
I’ve had a lot of happiness in my life: 1) the birth of my children; 2) getting into Lamda when I was 17; 3) meeting my wife; 4) and the renewal of our marriage vows and my 60th birthday.
Jesse Jackson
American minister, activist and politician
In college, meeting my wife and then having our first child, and marching together to bring down the walls of Jim Crow.
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