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"Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer."
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"You really don't know a person until you spend some time in their panties."

"Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity."

"At least there's nothing scary about him and hopefully he doesn't see anything scary in me. We go way back, to summer camp. We KNOW each other. People I don't know just make me want to say YIKES! I'll take history over mystery any day of the week."

"When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable."

"When I see him, his frame filling the doorway, I do not feel passion, excitement. I can't remember if I ever have. He makes me feel comfortable, like a favorite pair of shoes."

"I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness."

"Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer."
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"Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer."

"Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers."

"The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers."

"How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?"
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