"Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it's really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place - relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table."

-- Adam Gopnik

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“I hardly ever watch my own work. I just end up picking myself apart! I can't even stand to hear myself on voicemail. the sound of my own voice is like nails on a chalkboard. The same goes for my records.”
“I was very sporty at school, and sport was probably the thing I was best at, but my real passion was for fashion.”
“Being spontaneous, itâ€™s what saved me,”
“You believe that all humanity came from Adam and Eve, and humans have not evolved at all since. So tell me; between the two of them, which was black, which was white, and which was Asian?”
“The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.”
“I think the deafness affects me more than I realise I think it makes me more tired. I loathe parties. I attend, smile and leave.”
“You are alive today, and no matter what your condition, make a mark here and now. Opportunity is at every moment, seizing it is pleasure.”
“I learned early on that family, as far as my mother and father, were not an option.”

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