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On 'Redneck Island,' a show I love, there was a lot of drama and storylines going on because someone's always voted off the island through process of elimination. ”
When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me. ”
If we just stick to one kind of music, our creativity is limited. We wanted to extend the audience for the cello, especially the younger people, and to show them how cool and how powerful and how diverse the cello can be. ”
The logical process will often be the safe one. I tend, when I'm given that choice, to go the way that's not safe. ”
Stand-up is more of an organic process. An imagined dialogue with the audience. ”
I just have a relationship with my imagination. It's like my friend, almost. ”
People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do. ”
The definition of an artist, for me, is someone who is quite selfish about their creativity. ”
My Ph.D. thesis, with Sam Treiman as adviser, was on the application of renormalization theory to the effects of strong interactions in weak interaction processes. ”
First of all, just because the Tea Party people appear to be generally uneducated, ignorant about the political process, ignorant about economics, confused about their own platform from the beginning, and indelicate when it comes to the craft of diplomacy, doesn't mean they're wrong. ”