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As I get older, I get happier.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 January 2017 source ↗
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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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Florence Welch
British singer
Either pottering around on my own or performing, so I don’t know what kind of person that makes me.
David Gandy
British model
This morning, when I found a £20 note in a coat I hadn’t worn for a while.
Tim Minchin
Australian musician, writer, actor and comedian
Maybe when my wife Sarah and I were walking back to our hotel in Covent Garden, London, through the snow after the Olivier awards when Matilda won all the stuff. Hold on, I’m meant to say the birth of my children, aren’t I?
Kirsty Young
Scottish television radio presenter
Running down a hill in midsummer sunshine aged eight, singing ELO's Mr Blue Sky.
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My father, because he’s never run away from anything.
Like you are standing with an army.
Swimming off the north Cornish coast eight years ago. I remember thinking, “Why did they teach you how to inflate your pyjamas in life-saving classes at school, when they could have just told you what to do in a riptide?”
Funerals are for the people left behind, so I don’t mind.
Ten years ago I bought a painting. I lived with it for a year before realising I didn’t like it at all. So it’s on my wall, mocking me daily.
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