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"John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student."
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"Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday."
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"I just want to go to university and have fun - I want to be an ordinary student. I'm only going to university. It's not like I'm getting married - though that's what it feels like sometimes."
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"I can't come on like a parent to these kids, if I do, I won't be able to have fun working with them. The good news is they all have parents. The younger ones, their parents by law have to be on set."
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"Working is hard and distracts from having fun."
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"Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it."
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"I enjoyed playing around with that guy, and it was a pleasure every three, four years, coming back seeing how the wardrobe is. Is he heavy? Is he thin? I had fun."
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"When I got involved with The Five Crowns who later became The Drifters, and we got this hit record, I still was looking at this as kind of a fun thing."
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"But between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point where I was making my living at white clubs and having my fun at the other places."
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"Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly."
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"The Britney Spears movie was just fun and light, but let's talk about that in a few months."
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"We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background."
Ability
"When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas."
History
"When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect."
People
"The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves."
Philosophy
"We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity."
Humanity
"The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives."
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"John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student."
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"If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem."
Body
"Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading."
Reading
"Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions."
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