I won a local art competition aged 10 – the first time I’d won anything.
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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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Jenna Coleman
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There was a moment in my early 20s when I’d finished Emmerdale and didn’t know what was next. I drove from LA to San Francisco listening to Tracy Chapman and it felt like one of those pure moments of uncomplicated joy.
I don’t remember the womb, so … my first taste of ice cream? First night in a girl’s bed: happy.
Shaun Ryder
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When I was 15 and starting my first job as a messenger boy at the post office, delivering telegrams.
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Pyramid Song, by Radiohead, live.
The floral waistcoat and shocking-pink shirt combo I wore on my 21st.
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