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David Foster Wallace on Ambition
Season 1
Episode 3
Interview by Leonard Lopate, WNYC, March 4, 1996
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"We're going to investigate every single one of these hypotheses, and we'll tell you what
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"I’m very interested in how people adapt to extremes” - Oliver Sacks on July 28, 1996
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“I don’t feel any compulsion just to stand under the spotlight night after night unless I
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"If God didn‘t want me to sing it, he wouldn‘t have given me the talent to do it“ - Stevie
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"If you want to preserve your power indefinitely, you have to get the consent of the rule.
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Marlene Dietrich in 1969, as interviewed by Jay Kent Hackleman
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"It’s okay being a woman now. I like it. Try it some time.” - Nora Ephron, 1975
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“I‘m never going to become rich and famous” - Bob Dylan in 1962.
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"I don‘t think that there‘s a girl around that would fit in with what we do."
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Rod Serling interviewed in 1963.
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“I’m a cookie-decorating mom. I don’t bake them. I decorate them.“
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"Sometimes when it all comes together ... you become the film you’re making."