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When people ask me, 'What do you do for fun?' - it's my family. That's it. ”
I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me. ”
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold. ”
Philly will always have a special place in my heart, and I will cherish the great memories with the city and my teammates there. ”
If someone wanted to do a biopic about me, I would like for them to consult my family. ”
Many of my colleagues are not able to run their family budget. On the other hand, I look at some of the apparatchiks in research councils, and I have even less trust in their abilities. Good intentions have always paved the road to hell. ”
I would say there are three important things about graphene. It's two-dimensional, which is the best possible number for studying fundamental physics. The second thing is the quality of graphene, which stems from its extremely strong carbon-carbon bonds. And finally, the system is also metallic. ”
If you don't put 99 percent of yourself into the writing, there will be no publishing career. There's the writer and there's the author. The author - you don't ever think about the author. Just think about the writer. So my advice would be, find a way to not care - easier said than done. ”
Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating his children. That still meant picking us up every Sunday for a matinee and, if he had the money, an early dinner somewhere. ”
I truly believe the art's larger than the artist. Who cares about John Steinbeck? I care about the Joad family. ”