Sam Neill: What keeps you awake at night?

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Recorded Sam Neill said elsewhere, not written here

Worrying about insomnia.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 June 2016 source ↗

Others on this question

Kathy Lette Australian-British author

Worrying about the faux pas I made earlier that evening. I tend to suffer from foot-in-mouth disease.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 June 2024 source ↗

Aidan Gillen Irish actor

Foxes making love: it’s a very unsettling sound.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 May 2017 source ↗

Donna Tartt American novelist and writer

All kinds of ridiculous things, like worrying about the lobsters I see in restaurant tanks in Chinatown.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 October 2013 source ↗

Joan Bakewell English journalist, television presenter and politician

Wondering if I've turned the gas off.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 October 2013 source ↗

Still being in work. And my vineyards; they’re beautiful.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 June 2016 source ↗

I Will Remember You, by Sarah McLachlan. That’ll choke the bastards up if nothing else will.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 June 2016 source ↗

My brother, Michael. He is an academic and has devoted his life to scholarship; my life seems trivial by comparison. Bastard.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 June 2016 source ↗

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