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When I got married in 2016. I’d had a chance to practise three times before, so I was comfortable.
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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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Siri Hustvedt
American novelist, essayist, poet
I have a penchant for happiness. I have experienced euphoria before a migraine, which may not count, but I have also felt immense happiness leaning back in a chair in sunlight, puttering in my garden, reading, dancing, immediately after giving birth and when writing.
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.
Richard Osman
English TV presenter and writer
Probably when Fulham beat Juventus 4-1 in the Europa League.
Margaret Atwood
Novelist, poet and critic
Can't pick and choose, it's bad luck.
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Raising my children, Tom and Libby, on my own.
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