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“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.”
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“I have a tremendous amount of respect for military families. To have to worry about your loved ones and still try and live a normal life is extremely hard.”
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“I'd love to live nonbiologically and move about at the speed of light and be in communication with a million people at once and create works of art that are grand and sophisticated and very human at the same time so all these types of things.”
Source : "Barry Ptolemy Gets Personal". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 27, 2009. 
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“With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.”
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“American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism.”
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“I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.”
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“I’m confiscating your hair dryer—you’ve fried your brain.”
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“Really there's different scales of stories. Sometimes you want to tell one that 20, 30, 40, 50 million people will want to see and hear. Sometimes you do one that you know 150 will want to see on one night. As long as you're telling the right story for the right audience and they're getting something out of it it's essentially the same feeling to me.”
Source : Source: bigthink.com
