Terence Conran
British restaurateur and designer
All-embracing: when you find it, you don’t want to let it go.
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How would you describe what love feels like to you?
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Ronald Harwood
South African playwright and novelist
Basking in the sun.
John Simpson
English journalist
Comfort, warmth and security.
Gloria Steinem
Writer and feminist organiser
Feeling you want someone else’s welfare as much and sometimes more than your own.
Ian McEwan
British novelist and screenwriter
Exhilarating. I’ve been extremely lucky in that the person I love, Annalena, happens to be my wife.
Julie Andrews
English actress, singer and author
As you go through life, you discover so many forms of love – passionate, compassionate, familial, friendship. Love is hard to describe but it’s wonderful.
Björn Ulvaeus
Swedish musician
It’s a calm and secure feeling of deep loyalty.
David Jason
English actor
Warmth and security.
Roger Taylor
English musician, songwriter, and record producer
It comes in flashes, so it feels fleeting.
James Dyson
British inventor and businessman
An overwhelming sensation of caring and passion.
Rose Tremain
English writer
Like coming home.
Jacqueline Wilson
English novelist
Realising that if they were drowning, you’d try to save them.
Julian Lloyd Webber
British cellist and conductor
Frightening, exhilarating and all-consuming.
Like intoxication, sometimes followed by a hangover.
Kellie Maloney
Retired boxing manager, promoter and politician
Love comes in different aspects. There’s sexual love, companion love and unconditional love, and I think you only have unconditional love with your children or your pets.
Marina Abramović
Performance artist
Eternal happiness.
Charles Dance
British actor
Comforting, uplifting, all consuming.
Warm, sugary, fierce, protective.
An umbilical cord.
It is all there is.
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