Lucy Worsley
English historian
I think you can be happy every day, if you are in the flow.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
On stage. Always on stage. God that’s depressing, isn’t it?
The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 December 2023 source ↗
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Richard Osman
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Probably when Fulham beat Juventus 4-1 in the Europa League.
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My wedding day, eight years ago.
Jonathan Safran Foer
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Leaving the hospital.
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A better knee and better lungs.
Physically, falling off my bike two years ago. Emotionally, when my mother died when I was 27.
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So many. I have been very cowardly in the past, and it came across as me not caring, when the opposite was true.
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