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What does love feel like?

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Griff Rhys Jones British actor and comedian
Adolescent love feels like exquisite self-indulgence. Long-term love feels like a warm bath that needs a trickle of extra hot water every now and then.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 December 2017 source ↗
Sandi Toksvig Danish and British broadcaster, comedian and writer
Like driving a Ford Mustang with the top down across the Golden Gate Bridge while the sun is setting and you have a dinner reservation in Sausalito.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 March 2018 source ↗
Mandy Patinkin American actor and singer
Love is a religious experience, which then requires me to define religion, which I define as everything I don’t understand.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 October 2019 source ↗
Robert Bathurst English theatre and television actor
Unqualified. Also, there’s that strange moment when you’re listening to lyrics on Radio 2 and you think, “Ooh, that’s so deep”.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 June 2020 source ↗
Nicholson Baker Contemporary American novelist and writer
It’s like all your emotions are apples and they get crushed all at once into cider.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 August 2020 source ↗
Viv Albertine Australian-born British musician and writer
It’s like digging a field together: it’s hard work, not very glamorous, but you can stand back and think, “We did that.”
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 October 2020 source ↗
kd lang Canadian musician
A deep awareness of all things beautiful and painful.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 May 2021 source ↗

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