Simon Bird
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Just crippling existential dread.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 July 2014 source ↗
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My job. I want to get it right.
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Courteney Cox
American actress and producer
Worrying about not being able to go back to sleep.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 March 2019 source ↗
My kids, global boiling, everything.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 January 2024 source ↗
Michael Kiwanuka
English singer-songwriter
If I think my family’s not safe. And if I have a good idea musically: sometimes I can’t sleep out of excitement.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 November 2019 source ↗
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An obstetrician.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 October 2017 source ↗
My daughter. She’s awesome and it’s because I’m awesome. Lol.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 October 2017 source ↗
But it was really – it came across sinister. And for me, I really did listen to it. I accepted it. I tried to implement that. The reason why I say it’s the worst advice I ever received was that it was damaging to me because she was totally wrong. ... And so, when somebody who is successful tells you to do something, you try to do it, even when it damages you.
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 4 February 2018 source ↗
On Friday: my daughter won her volleyball game and my mom sent me videos, because I couldn’t be there. I cried wishing I’d been there to cheer her on.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 October 2017 source ↗
As the biggest, brightest, most bodacious badass that ever lived.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 October 2017 source ↗
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