When were you happiest?

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Recorded Bobby Gillespie said elsewhere, not written here
Standing on stage in between Robert Young and Andrew Innes, blasting away.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 May 2021 source ↗

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Sally Mann Photographer
On the island of Bequia—one summer, out of the blue, a benefactor (thank you, Charlene) flew our entire family there and put us up in a cliffside house that was a weird mixture of Gaudí and Fred Flintstone and where we went to sleep at eight and got up at five. In between we read, swam, hiked, and unknowingly enjoyed the last moment before the irrevocable shear of adolescence set in.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2018 source ↗
Tracey Ullman British and American actress
When I met my husband and had babies. They have made me happy ever since.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 March 2017 source ↗

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