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The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 January 2012 source ↗
I have a penchant for happiness. I have experienced euphoria before a migraine, which may not count, but I have also felt immense happiness leaning back in a chair in sunlight, puttering in my garden, reading, dancing, immediately after giving birth and when writing.
Flying in over London on a cool, clean morning after a long time away.
When I was 16, I’d just won full scholarships to both the Royal Academy and the Royal College of Music, and felt like the world was my oyster.
The birth of my children.
Not being a dad by the age of 32.
Amber, my aunt, and her boyfriend, Gian Luigi Valino – he has primary lateral sclerosis and she cares for him.
Bryan Cranston, Elisabeth Moss, Ben Kingsley, Marianne Faithfull, Ashley Walters, Emilia Fox
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