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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
From the final Hold this Thought broadcast:
"In East of Eden, John Steinbeck writes:
'A child may ask, "What is the world's story about?" And a grown man or woman may wonder, "What way will the world go? How does it end and, while we're at it, what's the story about?"
I believe ...
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
By then, the veterans had developed an informal set of rules for themselves: Take the craft seriously ([Judi] Dench: "deadly"). Don't take yourself seriously ([Patrick] Stewart: "That's death to creativity"). Never think you know it all (Dench: "Absolutely fatal").
Ian McKellen: The Player - TIME
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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
A few years ago, I read and enjoyed Alice W. Flaherty's memoir, The Midnight Disease. Suffering from postpartum depression after the death of her newborn child, she began experiencing hypergraphia -- the uncontrollable urge to write. She filled pages and pages with her writing, and couldn't stop -- the opposite ...
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Sunday, September 14th, 2008
I don't take many notes in my 500 class, but I wanted to get this down from the professor, Dr. Marchionini:
If you're a professional, then you have to think. The professional dwells in confusing places where the boundaries are fuzzy and you have to make decisions. If you're not thinking, ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
My previous post on winning arguments unfairly reminded me of a blog posting by the actor, writer, wit, and all-around bon vivant Stephen Fry.
In this post, (scroll down to "Getting Overheated") Fry discusses how Englishers and Americans differ when having an argument. While he and his fellow Englishmen love a ...
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