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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."

"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."

"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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"I think Hannah gets nervous just like any other person would. She's like a dork, personally. She's just really, really fun."
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"One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that."

"I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot."

"But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake."

"Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question."

"It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud."

"We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews."

"In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it."

"But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time."

"You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space."
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