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I am happiest when I am working.
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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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Marc Almond
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In my first bedsit when I went to art college in Leeds. It was a hideous basement, but I loved the freedom.
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In 1978, working in France for a year. It was my first time working abroad.
Marian Keyes
Irish writer
Last Tuesday, lying on the couch, watching Schitt’s Creek with my husband. Happiness is the small, ordinary days, not the big, up-in-lights ones.
When: I finish a good scene. Where: looking back, in the navy.
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None: I do not want a funeral.
Unfinished work and caffeine.
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