Tim Minchin
Australian musician, writer, actor and comedian
I’d take back some dumb shit I said when I had no audience and found that being shocking made people laugh.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
When I was 17, I was offered a tennis scholarship at the University of Virginia. I wish I had been brave enough to take it.
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Burt Reynolds
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I wouldn’t have done the naked centrefold in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1972.
Paapa Essiedu
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I would really love to know my parents as an adult. I lost my dad when I was 14 and my mum when I was 20.
Absolutely nothing.
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View profile →When Sean Connery died. He was a big tennis fan – a big Andy fan – and I met him a few times.
On a flight, last February, from Atlanta to Rio. We went through a storm and I was convinced that the plane was going down. The overhead cabins were opening, everything was falling out, people were screaming and I was hanging on to my seat.
Getting my teeth done. I had veneers and it took 18 months.
Billie Jean King. She’s the reason tennis is such an equal sport in terms of opportunity for women.
That Scottish tennis has failed to capitalise on the successes of Jamie and Andy.
Firm, fair, fun.
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