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Either pottering around on my own or performing, so I don’t know what kind of person that makes me.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 December 2015 source ↗
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Kim Wilde
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These are the happiest days. I love the process of getting older and, sometimes, wiser.
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I have become progressively happier as I’ve got older. It’s to do with not striving as much.
John Simm
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After the birth of both my children, although Manchester United winning the treble in 1999 came pretty close.
George Saunders
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Pittsford, New York, writing my first book when our kids were small, riding my bike to work because we only had one car…that feeling of being needed and loved and vitally involved in something artistic that I didn’t fully understand, everything still lying ahead of us.
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My little sister Grace. In all the ways in which I am not capable or grounded or calm, she is.
Perhaps a few drunken incidents – but I’ll keep the coat.
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