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When I was a child and a teenager, before I got discovered.
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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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Father John Misty
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Whenever it was, it’s likely I was actually miserable, destitute and alone.
Every morning when I go into our three-year-old’s room. He’s so happy to see you, it’s a moment of heaven.
Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1940–1945 and 1951–1955; Member of Parliament 1900–1964
But the years 1895 to 1900 which are the staple of this story exceed in vividness, variety and exertion anything I have known—except of course the opening months of the Great War. When I look back upon them I cannot but return my sincere thanks to the high gods for the gift of existence. All the days were good and each day better than the other. Ups and downs, risks and journeys, but always the sense of motion, and the illusion of hope.
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Chapter of his autobiography, written at Chartwell in 1930, Winston S. Churchill, My Early Life (Thornton Butterworth, 1930), Project Gutenberg Canada, October 1930
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When: I finish a good scene. Where: looking back, in the navy.
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