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“Its all gone pretty fast. I dont want to move on, but I know I have to.”
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“I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.”
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“I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days--our unvarnished, untutored, ever-present, inborn agency.”
Source : "The Silent Wife".
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“The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're a layer between our minds and the physical reality around us, obviously, but the layer seems like it's always in flux, like an asteroid belt, constantly moving.”
Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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“The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.”
Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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“Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?”
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“I don't have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It's not about that for me.”
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“There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde's plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics.”
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“They make a humongous profit, but the people that work on the shows don't get paid a lot because they're working on the Oscars show. It's the biggest show in the world.”
