I'm a happy guy in general, but the feeling of freedom and fun I got driving around with my friends in my first car is hard to top.
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What is your greatest fear?
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My wedding day, listening to my brother’s best-man speech.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2015 source ↗
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Probably when our children were small, which is not to say I am unhappy now.
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When my wife Lorraine and I got together in 1990. We were in a play at the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester when we suddenly realised we were falling in love.
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Tomorrow (hopefully).
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