- Nov 07, 2020
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- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always like the idea of doing interviews with somebody but completely seriously not ever mentioning what that person is generally known for.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've purposely stayed away from reading much about postmodern theory, and most everything I have read just bored me to tears. I don't think anybody's written about it, or very few have, with any verve.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on the list was a very dark week for me. Everyone knows that all I wanted was to be off that list.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly deadlines to get stuff done, or I continue to do things and not go off on a year of unproductivity.
- Documents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll always be working on five things at once, usually with those documents open at the same time because if I get stuck somewhere I'll jump over to something else. That's how my head has always worked.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
The house is a factory.
- Small
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- Nov 07, 2020
Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
They took my mother's stomach out six months ago.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before.
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- Nov 07, 2020
And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher.
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- Nov 07, 2020