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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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"There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators."
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"I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times."
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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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"What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?"
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"Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants."
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"I've never had a day job. I've been very fortunate."
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"I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn't working."
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"My name's Jennifer Ellison and one day I'm going to be famous!"
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"Training Day was such a Hollywood movie; I didn't like it."
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"Give me a sword fight any day."
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"Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve."
Mathematics
"I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days."
Love
"I loved doing problems in school."
Problems
"I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof."
Proof
"Fermat said he had a proof."
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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
"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
"I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years."
Time
"The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself."
Mathematics
"I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal."
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