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I had a terrible motorcycle accident, in San Francisco as matter of fact. Doing a picture called... oh, this is terrible. It's a very well-known film and I can't remember the name. That's what happens when you get older... I fell off a bridge in San Francisco and was laid up for two years. ”
I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound. ”
Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster. ”
Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so. ”
Being an expatriate doesn't go down well in America. ”
We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra. ”
A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones. ”
People in my village had this mindset that in big cities like New York, if you are lost or without directions, no one will help you. The first time I came here, I tried to make sure not to walk by myself, because it would be difficult for me if I got lost. But people will help you. ”
I want to bring clean water to people who do not have it. What I'm trying to do now is think of ways to build a well-drilling machine that is low-cost so people in rural areas can afford it. People in rural places could use the water for irrigation or for drinking. ”
I want to bring clean water to people who do not have it. What I'm trying to do now is think of ways to build a well-drilling machine that is low-cost so people in rural areas can afford it. ”