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I’ll be at my happiest today, and probably my gloomiest at some point today, too.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 December 2017 source ↗
The question
What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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Joan Jett
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My teenage years in the Runaways: I was still naive enough to think good things about the world and life and people, and I was having fun playing rock’n’roll around the world, living the dream.
Andy Roddick
American tennis player
Nothing is better than right now, and having a baby is no small part.
The first time I remember being truly happy was with my children on Ainsdale beach, not far from Southport. I spent £15 on butties, and we spent the whole day by the sea.
Boy George
British musician
I am relieved to say that I find it hard to answer such a question, because if I could it would suggest that my life has become dreary and empty.
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The next morning. It rarely turns out as bad as I think it’s going to be.
Adolescent love feels like exquisite self-indulgence. Long-term love feels like a warm bath that needs a trickle of extra hot water every now and then.
As a charming, helpful, solicitous, generous, loving, carefree and constantly funny companion, lover and father. Some hope of that.
An actor. Then I grew out of that and became one by default. Or sort of one: “Not really an actor”, said Michael Billington.
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