The stuff of terror: ghosts, slugs, myki fines, and being a 13-year-old.
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"Humour has so much tangled up in tension and honesty that it’s hard to manufacture a stage persona that you have to work to stay within."
"All those in-between moments of limbo I’ve had in my life—times when I decided to move across the world or cut ties with someone or start (or quit) a big project—present that opportunity to either succeed or fail spectacularly. The decisions w...
"I think ambition and failure are more closely related than we tend to realise. You pretty much can’t have one without the other. When I look back at some of my (many) failures, they’ve occurred because of ambition, but then I’ve picked myself...
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