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"Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents."
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"I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else or as smart, or whatever."
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"Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times."
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"Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up."
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"I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up."
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"Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl."
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"L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who."
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"When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't."
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"I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world."
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"Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up."
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"The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats."
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"My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem."
Life
"After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began."
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"My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill."
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"After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes."
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"About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments."
Research
"My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate)."
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"During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry."
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"Life would be indeed easier if the experimentalists would only pause for a little while!"
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"I have always loved going to school."
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"My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set."
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