"You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship."

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Marilyn Hacker

#Teaching Quotes #Mean Quotes #Groups Quotes

“What's invaluable about actually going to the places you want to write about are the random accidental things that happen. Random, accidental detail is the best way to make a setting convincing. You can of course invent your own random details, and sometimes I will also mash up real incidents.”
“Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important but today they are more crucial than ever.”
“I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us.”
“People--stupid when they lived; potentially stupid when they died.”
“Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We have people who were actually CSIs on set [CSI: Miami], so definitely I have learned a lot just having them around.”
“There are no answers, only choices,”

Source : "Fictional character: Gibarian". "Solaris", www.imdb.com. 2002.
“Twenty miles on, we have spotted a roadside sign: 'CHAINSAW CARVED MUSHROOMS'. Troubles promptly forgotten, Stuart falls to gawping at the road ahead. What could it all be about? 'As one victim to another,' his body language seems to marvel, 'What's a mushroom done to deserve that kind of abuse?' Not even in the worst days of street-fighting did he ever experience ill-treatment on this scale.”

Source : Alexander Masters (2006). “Stuart: A Life Backwards”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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