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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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An eight-hour walk along the north Cornwall coast with my eldest children - aged eight and 10. Whoever has eight hours of solid conversation with their children? I loved every minute.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 March 2009 source ↗
St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto: 8:31 A.M., July 1, 1981; 8:29 A.M., May 4, 1983.
As a kid, my summers at camp in the Adirondacks. And as an adult, when I’m onstage.
Sunday mornings with my parents when I visited from college.
In 1971, I was sitting in a hotel room in London and there was a television chat show going on, debating whether Donny Osmond should be deported because of the chaos he was wreaking. And while I was watching this, there were fans on the street below, chanting my name. I was 13 and thought, “Does it get any better than this?”
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