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My wedding day, listening to my brother’s best-man speech.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2015 source ↗
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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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People are often traumatised by the sleeplessness in the first years of their children’s lives, but I was insanely happy to be married and have two children. The only dark cloud was how much we were loathed for having babies who slept through the night.
Vince Cable
British politician
My best times have been around my family.
Emeli Sandé
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Last night, on stage in New York.
The first time I stood on top of the hill that I now live on, in 2007.
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