"All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James."

-- Donna Leon

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“I find listening to music in terms of influences, and trying to keep up with what's going on, is sickening! I mean, I'm not deliberately musically illiterate. But I have a pretty serendipitous approach to it.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.”
“It's remarkable how a soundtrack can be so important to the storytelling and the experience. I think the music is going to make people see the movie a lot. The music is going to make you want to go see it again. You have so much fun in the movie, and it's music that you want to share with your kids, anyway.”
“Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs”

Source : "Remembering the big day: when grad met Dad" by Joshunda Sanders, www.sfgate.com. June 8, 2003.
“I mean, the best thing for my knee, for anyone's knee, is to never play again and retire. But I'm not going to do that.”
“A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.”
“I think my brain is full of collisions and that's how I like to read and process information. I'm always comparing things and I think I do that subconsciously when I'm reading books of poetry.”
“Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.”

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