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"It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years."
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"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way."
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"So foul and fair a day I have not seen."
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"I'll probably make loads of plans, and then just sit around on my bottom all day long and do nothing."
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"I have a great husband, great parents and in-laws, and I have help with a nanny. It's not easy, but there are others who do it every day and don't have a high-profile job as I do."
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"I had a one day slip, Matt. So what do you do? You get up and you go on, and you try not to do it again."
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"When someone is impatient and says, "I haven't got all day," I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?"
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"If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day."
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"The first day of shooting I walk up to Christopher Walken, and I said, Should I call you Mr. Walken or Chris? He goes, "Call me Flash.""
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"He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day."
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"Also, there are seats in the diner that always fall off the table. If you have a scene where you're packing up at the end of the day and putting them on the table, they just slide off."
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"I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine."
Life
"Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge."
Love
"I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream."
Life
"We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention."
Attention
"I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did."
Achievement
"There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today."
Today
"I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future."
Hope
"But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library."
Public
"It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day."
Work
"Fermat said he had a proof."
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