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When my first child was born – something I thought would never happen.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 November 2016 source ↗
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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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Helena Bonham Carter
Actor
Both of the days my children were born. It was like I’d stepped through a mirror and everything turned Technicolor.
Marian Keyes
Irish writer
Last Tuesday, lying on the couch, watching Schitt’s Creek with my husband. Happiness is the small, ordinary days, not the big, up-in-lights ones.
Mornings. Playing music, fresh coffee, dippy eggs and soldiers, my girlfriend – what’s not to love?
Steve Pemberton
British actor and comedian
Phoning my dad to tell him we’d won the Edinburgh Perrier award with The League Of Gentlemen in 1997.
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