Rob Lowe
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Any of the many times I have sat on my lawn with my wife, watching the boys play on a summer evening.
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In the car with my kids, singing Purple Rain.
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Nicholson Baker
Contemporary American novelist and writer
When we had children at home. But recently I finished a book about old secrets that I’ve been working on for a long time, and when I was done, I felt a gigantic, joyful relief in having escaped from the corn maze of remembered facts in which I’d been wandering for so long.
Peter Gabriel
English musician
When surrounded by my family.
Tim Minchin
Australian musician, writer, actor and comedian
Maybe when my wife Sarah and I were walking back to our hotel in Covent Garden, London, through the snow after the Olivier awards when Matilda won all the stuff. Hold on, I’m meant to say the birth of my children, aren’t I?
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