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I am always happiest when I am making my art.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 May 2016 source ↗
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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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Louis Walsh
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I’m always happy. Ask Simon Cowell: he says if I had a tail, I’d wag it.
Benjamin Zephaniah
British poet and author
In 1985, in St Elizabeth, Jamaica, sitting on the veranda with my grandmother, people-watching, and listening to poetry and local gossip.
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
English interior designer and television personality
This is going to horribly upset my wife, my children and my grandchildren, but it was when I did The Greatest Snowman last year for Channel 4. Being let loose on an Austrian mountainside to build snow sculptures was my happy point, and who knew I’d find an icy G-spot at nearly 58.
Any recent gathering with friends and family; yesterday, running by the ocean; anytime, solving a problem or creating something. Right now, in bed with news and popcorn.
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