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My wedding day, listening to my brother’s best-man speech.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2015 source ↗
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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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Sofia Coppola
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Driving my convertible over the Bay Bridge when I was 18, listening to Thinking of You by Sister Sledge.
Robert Bathurst
English theatre and television actor
When I turned 30, married and had a place in Brixton. My flailing twenties were over, though the flailing continues.
Griff Rhys Jones
British actor and comedian
I’ll be at my happiest today, and probably my gloomiest at some point today, too.
Jessica Brown Findlay
English actress
My wedding day last year. It was supposed to be 4 April and, in the end, it was 12 September.
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