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"I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison."
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"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit."
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"In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me."
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"Whenever we don't turn the ball over, we're pretty productive. When you're turning the ball over, you're cutting down on offensive opportunities."
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"I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house."
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"I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco."
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"I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style."
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"I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on."
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"It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation."
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"Marcel Desailly was pretty hard when I played against him in a Milan derby."
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"Our profile was pretty low, deliberately so. Our constituents were a relatively small audience."
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"It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about?"
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"Science is a self-sufficient activity."
Science
"Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves."
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"I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to the minute and subtle details of human behavior, which was the sort of thing I was looking at when I was a neurologist."
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"What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is."
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"I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity."
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"A lot of high-level scientists are in fact people of almost universal interest."
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"Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing: You're reconstructing the manifold of behavior to the point where an audience says, yes, that's exactly like people I know."
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"People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists."
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"People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw."
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