When I hired two private detectives and got them to follow each other.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 April 2025 source ↗
When were you happiest?
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I am a happy person. I am happy every day. But if I had to pick a time it would be the first time I fell in love.
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Samuel L Jackson
American actor
When I first got sober, in 1990.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 December 2011 source ↗
The night my daughter was born, New York, December 29, 1997. After she emerged and I held her in the palm of my hand, I walked around Manhattan in a stupor of happiness.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2009 source ↗
Shirley MacLaine
American actress and author
Watching my two baby dogs play. They are rat terriers, rescue dogs.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 July 2017 source ↗
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