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You've got to teach yourself you can do your job no matter what happens.
- Tim Minchin
#Happens
#Job
#Matter
#Teach
#Yourself
I'm the son of a surgeon and the grandson of a surgeon.
- Tim Minchin
#Grandson
#Son
#Surgeon
I'm as strict as my parents - I have high expectations, too. I'd never ask the kids to do something outside their capabilities, but I'll encourage them not to be lazy and to try hard.
- Tim Minchin
#Expectations
#Lazy
#Never
#Parents
#Try
I don't like courting controversy because I don't like people not liking me.
- Tim Minchin
#Because
#Controversy
#Like
#Me
#People
In a global world, nationalism is a fantasy, and it's poison. It used to be appropriate, but it's not anymore, and we haven't learned that lesson yet.
- Tim Minchin
#Fantasy
#Lesson
#Nationalism
#World
I think there's something fundamentally wrong with thinking that there's a God who looks after you but kills everyone else. There's something, if not immoral, then gross, about it.
- Tim Minchin
#About
#Everyone
#God
#Thinking
#Wrong
Christopher Hitchens's autobiography, 'Hitch 22', is a poignant read and very interesting because I have a very poor knowledge of recent political history - or, for that matter, distant political history.
- Tim Minchin
#History
#Knowledge
#Political
#Poor
I was a late bloomer, but I realised that people really liked it when I played blues scales and, with the piano, I had that insatiable need to prove myself.
- Tim Minchin
#Blues
#Late
#Myself
#Need
#People
I know people come to my shows expecting me to give voice to some of the frustrations that nice, happy, progressive people like me have with the world.
- Tim Minchin
#Me
#Nice
#People
#Voice
#World
Just because you're right-wing shouldn't mean you don't believe climate science data. They're unrelated.
- Tim Minchin
#Believe
#Climate
#Data
#Mean
#Science
In particular, Stewart Lee and Tony Law, people who could have been really critical, were really supportive of me, and I'll never forget that, and I want to be that person, so you have to work really hard to repress your natural jealousies and be one of those people.
- Tim Minchin
#Law
#Me
#Never Forget
#Person
#Work
Trying to work out where you find meaning and sense in a meaningless world is my obsession.
- Tim Minchin
#Find
#Meaning
#Trying
#Work
#World
I have come to the conclusion there is no point making anything if you're not going to make people laugh and cry.
- Tim Minchin
#Anything
#Cry
#Laugh
#People
#Point
I spent thousands of thousands of hours playing the piano, and by thousands of hours, I mean playing in cover bands or wedding bands or disco bands or original bands or playing cabaret for Todd McKenney.
- Tim Minchin
#Cover
#Disco
#Mean
#Piano
#Wedding
Mum and Dad had high expectations of us as human beings - it wasn't just about education. It's a fantastic way to go about parenting, and I aspire to that.
- Tim Minchin
#Dad
#Education
#Expectations
#Parenting
I started writing songs for youth theater and stuff, and so it's really writing music for the stage that started me out, but then I eventually went to music college and did a two-year course in contemporary music and then just played in endless bands, cover bands, jazz bands.
- Tim Minchin
#Jazz
#Me
#Music
#Stage
#Youth
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