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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River. ”
When I read the script and saw the jazz music setting, and when I read the name of the filmmaker was Damien Chazelle, I immediately got this mental image of Antoine Fuqua. ”
We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive. ”
There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture. ”
When I got out of college, I moved to Seattle because it was the nearest big city and still didn't know if I wanted to be a composer, conductor, singer, actor. I just got day jobs and auditioned and took what came, and the theater doors were the ones opening the most. ”
My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer. ”
Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else. ”
My goal is I want to create the 20-20-20 club: 20 sacks, 20 tackles for loss, 20 batted balls. ”
Each year, I write out a goal sheet with what I expect. If I showed anybody else my goal sheet, they would have said I was crazy. ”
If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you're going to work very hard to go nowhere. ”