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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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Brett Anderson
English singer
Right now. It's a beautiful thing to find yourself "the wrong side of 40" and more in love with life than ever. I never tell people this publicly as they wrongly assume the only valid creative state is that of the cliche of the tubercular, tortured artist coughing up blood in his garret.
Richard Hawley
English musician
I've often reached the dizzying heights of ecstasy holding a pint of frothy seasonal ale in Fagan's pub, chatting away with Tom the landlord.
Tim Peake
British Army Air Corps officer and astronaut
My happiest moments are when I am wild camping with my family in Scotland and cooking on a fire by a river.
Don Warrington
British actor
When I lived with my grandmother in Trinidad, before I came to England to live with my mother in Newcastle at the age of seven.
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My ex-wife Caroline, because she found my style of life rather irritating.
When I was 19, I washed up in the basement of a Paris restaurant that stank of rotted food. I did it for six months, until I was promoted to vegetable boy.
I have asked a fireworks company to put my ashes in a collection of rockets, so I think the right tune is Handel’s firework music.
All-embracing: when you find it, you don’t want to let it go.
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