Tim Minchin
Australian musician, writer, actor and comedian
Anxiety, mostly, once you have kids.
What does love feel like?
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
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Which writers or artists most influenced your work?
Taste & recommendation
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What is the most rewarding part of being a parent?
Relationships
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In the last five years, what new belief, behaviour, or habit has most improved your life?
Daily life
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If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere, what would it say and why?
Time & hindsight
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What important truth do very few people agree with you on?
Values & belief
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When you are in love, it's a knowing. It's a knowing like you know your own age, and you know your own family's, like, last name. That's what love feels like.
Terry Gross, Fresh Air Archive, 14 September 2016 source ↗
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Harlan Coben
American author
A white-hot explosion that turns into a comforting warmth.
Completely nuts.
Paul McKenna
British hypnotist and TV personality
The most intensive and beautiful golden sunlight. It’s the strongest force in the universe.
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View profile →I look back on many parts of my career and none rises to the top of the pride avenue for me more than the way that I responded to the benching in the 2015 Women’s World Cup.
My wife has inspired me probably the most out of my person in my life…Mia Hamm had a huge impact on my life – not just as a player. When I was new to the team I watched how she treated her teammates. I watched how she interacted with fans. I watched how she dealt with sponsors and her off the field business decisions. Mia was the symbol of the impossible.
Parenting is the wildest adventure and vocation that can happen to a person. Every day is different and there is no static. So, you have to kind of surrender to the process, which is a hard thing to do for somebody like me who prefers to have order in my life.
You see, soccer didn't make me who I was. I brought who I was to soccer, and I get to bring who I am wherever I go. And guess what? So do you.
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Barnard College commencement address, Radio City Music Hall, New York, Speakola, 16 May 2018
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GIVE ME THE RESPECT I'VE EARNED AND GIVE IT TO MY WOLF PACK TOO.
Recorded
Barnard College commencement address, Radio City Music Hall, New York, Speakola, 16 May 2018
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For power to stay in power, the powerful have to impose some level of fear over the people that they are in power over. If you have power, you make decisions and if you make decisions you can probably keep power.
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