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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
It’s hard to pick one time. I feel like I’m quite a happy person. My ninth birthday was epic, though.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2014 source ↗
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Anna Paquin
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I don’t think there’s a single moment. Every day that you wake up and your family is healthy and OK is a daily gratitude and happiness for me.
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Yesterday: sun-lounger, back garden, cup of tea, radio on.
Audra McDonald
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In the hospital giving birth to my second daughter with my first daughter right there in the room as it was happening. I don’t remember any pain. I just remember feeling more alive and full of fierce mama bear love than at any other point in my life.
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My ability to invariably say exactly the wrong thing in any given situation.
I would talk slower. When I hear myself interviewed sometimes it sounds like I’m running an auction.
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