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"I've been performing on stage since I was six years old."

"There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past."

"You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new."
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"Should l go on playing bridge and dining, going in the same old monotonous circle? It's easy that way, but it's a sort of suicide, too."
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"There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser."

"Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language."

"My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits."

"As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake."

"Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic."

"My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English."

"Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it."

"After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun."
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