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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.”
Source : "Honored literary scholar M.H. Abrams continues his labors (of love)". Interview with Linda Grace-Kobas, news.cornell.edu. June 11, 1999. 
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“Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.”
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“Part of my job is to try and seduce people. It's what I get paid for, and if people get in the way of me doing my job I can be very difficult.”
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“It's the hardest thing for a young player to develop. At the same time a young player also has to deliver their musicality to the audience. I'm still developing my own sound, because you can never know all the music.”
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“I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.”
Source : "What I know about men". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2008.
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“Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it becomes sensible to think that the favorable properties of physics, on which life depends, are in every respect deliberate.... It is, therefore, almost inevitable that our own measure of intelligence must reflect higher intelligence -even to the limit of God.”
Source : "Big enough to bury Darwin", www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2001.
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“My mom dressed me in silk to go to elementary school.”
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“The Comedy Store in LA, it's a really loose room and it's really dark and creepy and a great place to explore your own thoughts onstage.”
