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I sit on the sofa and eat kids’ sweets – shrimps and fizzy cola bottles.
The Guardian, Interview, The Guardian, 28 December 2019 source ↗
The question
What is your favourite side project?Originally asked
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Lifehacker repeatedly used this exact prompt in its named How I Work questionnaire.
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Albie Sachs
Anti-apartheid lawyer; Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
I want to make a movie. I’ve got a very strong movie in my head. And I’ve spoken to some movie people and I’ve said, “If you say it’s no go, I’ll drop it.” They said — two different people — “Do the script.” So I’m encouraged enough to do that.
Richard Feynman
Theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1965
I had nothing to do, so I start to figure out the motion of the rotating plate. I discover that when the angle is very slight, the medallion rotates twice as fast as the wobble rate—two to one. It came out of a complicated equation! Then I thought, “Is there some way I can see in a more fundamental way, by looking at the forces or the dynamics, why it’s two to one?”
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Excerpt from “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman”, Engineering and Science / Caltech Magazine, 1985
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Ardal O'Hanlon
Irish comedian and actor
I was always a watcher.
Andy Murray
British professional tennis player, 2005–2024
I think my left, but I don't really know. I haven't thought about it before. I think my left - I'll let you know.
More from Sarah Parish
View profile →Losing Nell.
Vanity.
I have a great quality of life, there is nothing that I want for.
I cry all the time, it’s an embarrassment.
In the first month of my second daughter Nell’s life. My first daughter, Ella-Jayne, was born with a serious heart defect so I didn’t get to just be a mum, I was a carer for the eight months of her life and lived in a hospital. When Nell was born, having a healthy child and being able to be a mum was incredible.
It feels like home.
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