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When I'm in love.
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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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Delia Smith
English cook and television presenter
I am happy most of the time.
George Saunders
Short-story writer and novelist
Pittsford, New York, writing my first book when our kids were small, riding my bike to work because we only had one car…that feeling of being needed and loved and vitally involved in something artistic that I didn’t fully understand, everything still lying ahead of us.
Iris Apfel
American interior designer and fashion icon
I try to be happy whenever I can. I don’t fret about what’s past and we don’t know if there will be a future, so I make as much as I can out of what’s here now.
Lupita Nyong'o
Actress
I thoroughly enjoyed high school in Nairobi: it was before everybody had a camera on their phone. I experimented with fashion and hairstyles that I am glad I don’t have any record of.
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