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“Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.”
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“I took acting classes in my senior year in college and I loved it.”
Source : "Q&A: 'Pariah' star Adepero Oduye is on the cups of stardom". Interview with Nigel Smith, www.mtv.com. December 27, 2011. 
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“I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.”
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“I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I thought you might like to have it done in needlepoint and mounted in a suitable frame to hang over Little John's bed. It says, The rewards of golf - and of life, too, I expect - are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules." I never heard from Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I can only conclude that the letter went astray.”
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“Michael Sanchez and I grew up in New Jersey, not far from here, playing soccer together. When I was in high school, I worked to start an organization to help senior citizens, which I learned a great deal from.”
Source : "Exclusive Interview: Prom's Thomas McDonell". Interview with Carly Nelson, www.seventeen.com. April 28, 2011.
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“We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.”
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“Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.”
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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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“We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.”
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“The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.”
