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The greatest sin of the academic left is that it has become fundamentally aristocratic, writing in bizarre jargon that makes cliches seem abstruse. If you can't explain your ideal to a fairly intelligent 12-year-old, it's probably your own fault.
Rutger Bregman
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Academic
Aristocratic
Bizarre
Intelligent
Jargon
Left
Sin
Fairly
Greatest
Cliches
Explain
Fault
Fundamentally
Ideal
Seem
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Years and years ago, I said I did not want to write academic books. I want to write books that are in the language of the common person so that Joe, who didn't even go to college, can sit down and read my book and get it and apply it to his life.
Gary Chapman
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Author
Academic
Joe
Years And Years
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I just look back at my time in college and think about how much my community activism and my work in neighborhoods really informed my actual academic career and beyond... It can provide a way better learning than the traditional classroom setting.
Opal Tometi
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Academic
Activism
Classroom
Setting
Time Work Learning
Actual
Work Time Learning
Informed
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I wonder if I would have been less organic of a designer without my background. Maybe I would be more academic about designing, more methodical. I want things to be a certain way, and I'm very precise, but school itself wasn't that relevant for me.
Francisco Costa
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Fashion Designer
Academic
Designer
Methodical
Precise
Relevant
Me Way More
Me Way School
Background
Certain Way
Organic
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I read academic books on courtesan culture at the turn-of-the century in Shanghai such as Gail Hershatter's 'The Gender of Memory'. The diaries were mostly in the form of letters from courtesans to a lover who had disappeared or taken their savings.
Amy Tan
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Film Writer
Academic
Diaries
Form
Gender
Letters
Shanghai
Taken
Books
Lover
Disappeared
Memory
Mostly
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I had hoped to do a lot more to help promote science in this country and in Europe, but I cannot see how that can happen. I have become toxic. I have been hung to dry by academic institutes who have not even bothered to ask me for my side of affairs.
Tim Hunt
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Academic
Bothered
Dry
Hung
Institute
Toxic
Affairs
Hoped
Promote
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If accessing the Internet becomes more difficult for low-income communities, academic and employment competition may be undermined, and could damage the prospects of upward mobility for low-income New Yorkers and further exacerbate income inequality.
Letitia James
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Academic
Damage
Employment
Income Inequality
Inequality
Low Income
Mobility
Prospects
Upward Mobility
Exacerbate
Undermined
Upward
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There's a big difference between the role of an academic and the role of someone in government. That's a cliche, but in academic life if you say things that are common sense and people nod their heads, it's not very useful. You're not adding anything.
Cass Sunstein
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Legal Scholar
Academic
Common Sense
Life Government People
Adding
Big Difference
Heads
Nod
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To teach an academic subject is certainly not easy, but compared to coaching, it is. We can say 'two plus two is four' to every kid and be sure that we are right. But in coaching, we have to literally get to the soul of the people we are dealing with.
Joe Paterno
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Football Coach
Academic
Plus
Dealing
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Berklee played a huge role in shaping my music. On an academic level, I learned a lot about vocal technique and culture. Since my major was Music Production and Engineering, I got a good handle on the technical and creative aspects of making a record.
Sid Sriram
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Academic
Engineering
Handle
Technique
Vocal
Good Music Culture
Aspects
Shaping
Technical
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I've been at this for 40 years. And, as an academic, I've been content with relatively small audiences, with the thought that the audience I long for will find its way eventually to what I have written, provided that what I have written is good enough.
Stephen Greenblatt
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Literary Critic
Academic
Good Enough Long
Good Long Way
Content
Relatively
Provided
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McGeorge Bundy was a brilliant man who'd had a meteoric academic career and was the youngest man ever to be dean of the Harvard faculty. But he was also arrogant and looked upon all sorts of people and politicians as not to be taken all that seriously.
Robert Dallek
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Historian
Academic
Arrogant
Brilliant
Dean
Faculty
Harvard
Politicians
Youngest
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I've given the idea a lot of thought and I believe it is a sound, logical course of action to hire a woman. The woman I hire won't be on the field blowing a whistle. She'll be in charge of academic counseling for the players and will do some recruiting.
Lee Corso
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Coach
Academic
Counseling
Logical
Blowing
Charge
Believe I Believe Will
Whistle
Hire
Recruiting
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I mean, I'm married to an academic oncologist, a cancer doctor, okay? He and his colleagues are some of the most conscientious, devoted, hard-working, conventional bourgeois people in the known universe. They are the people that keep this society going.
Amy Wax
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Society
Academic
Bourgeois
Cancer
Colleagues
Conventional
Devoted
Married
Okay
Universe
Doctor
Conscientious
Hard-Working
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
Vikram Seth
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Novelist
Academic
Amenable
Gymnastics
Realism
Favor
Literary
Largely
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The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
David Mamet
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Playwright
Trust
Science
Academic
Bent
Common
Common Sense
Earth
Heaven
Player
Both
Dreamt
Wrong
Expert
Fly
Learns
Perhaps
Poker
Sense
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African American students have less access to algebra and more access to seclusion and restraint than do their white peers. The significant disparity in educational resources has caused this problem of disparate discipline and disparate academic outcomes.
Chaka Fattah
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U.s. Representative
Academic
Algebra
Discipline
Educational
Outcomes
Peers
Restraint
Seclusion
Significant
Caused
African
Disparate
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There are some stunning visual moments in 'Arrival' that are out of this world, but it's all on the earth, and it's about an academic, a woman that is dealing with a personal tragedy, but there's a circular view of time that makes things more complicated.
Johann Johannsson
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Academic
Stunning
Tragedy
Visual
Time World View
Arrival
Circular
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But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping fees on them to subsidize football programs that, far from enhancing the academic mission instead make a mockery of it.
H. G. Bissinger
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Academic
Be Prepared
Fees
Mockery
Prefer
Dumping
Enhancing
Programs
Mission
Subsidize
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The research side of academic life is often viewed from the outside as a solo and, at times, lonely activity. In fact, it is quite the opposite: a communal activity in significant part where interaction and interchange generate ideas and critiques of them.
Michael Spence
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Academic
Interaction
Lonely
Significant
Solo
Opposite
Communal
Generate
Viewed
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When I graduated from high school, I had artistic and academic scholarships, and I was trying to figure out what to do. I decided to audition for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Julliard, and the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney, Australia.
Deborah Kara Unger
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Film Actress
Academic
Decided
Dramatic
High School
Institute
Royal
Sydney
School Trying High School
Arts
Audition
High
Figure
Graduated
National
Scholarships
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When I graduated from high school, I had artistic and academic scholarships, and I was trying to figure out what to do. I decided to audition for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Juilliard and the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney, Australia.
Deborah Kara Unger
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Film Actress
Art
Academic
Artistic
Australia
Dramatic
Institute
Juilliard
Royal
School
Sydney
School Trying High School
Arts
Audition
Graduated
Scholarships
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As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.
Brad Sherman
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United States Representative
Academic
Achievement
Athletic
Champion
Honor
President
States
Strive
United States
Bestow
Champions
Foster
Meeting
Recognize
Reward
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Founded when Abraham Lincoln believed education could lead the nation out of its darkest days, Ohio State now provides a powerful platform of interdisciplinary academic programs, world-class scholars, outstanding students, and extensive research capabilities.
Gordon Gee
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Abraham
Academic
Class
Ohio
Ohio State
Outstanding
Powerful
World Class
Believed
Capabilities
Darkest
Extensive
Programs
Lincoln
Platform
Scholars
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When I was 13, I won a scholarship to boarding school. My parents let me choose whether to go, and I decided I wanted to. Afterwards, I went to Cambridge to study law - in a way, I was carrying the academic hopes of my family, as Mum and Dad left school at 14.
Stephen Mangan
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Actor
Academic
Cambridge
Mum
Scholarship
Family Dad Me
Afterwards
Boarding
Boarding School
Carrying
Hopes
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I didn't do so well in the academic world, so I think the only way I could express myself was through visual art - anything I could get my hands on, whether it was glassblowing, sculpture, painting, or photography. I always wanted to be a painter. Or a farmer.
Steven Klein
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Academic
Painter
Sculpture
Visual
Art Myself Always
Art Myself World
Express
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My father was the child of academics and was probably destined to become an academic himself but vetoed that idea. Bailed, dropped out of graduate school and just went to work for an insurance company. But the house was full of books and music and all of that.
Lorrie Moore
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Writer
Academic
Destined
Graduate School
Dropped
Graduate
Insurance
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There once was a time when employers could be reasonably certain that college graduates had a basic sense of the world and, as a minimum, could write a coherent business letter. That is simply no longer the case, as some academic leaders appear ready to admit.
Charlie Sykes
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Academic
Employers
Graduates
Minimum
Time Business World
Admit
Appear
Coherent
Letter
Reasonably
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I set realistic goals consistent with my talents. I never, for instance, wanted to sit on an appellate court. I'm not an academic. Truth be told, I hate to do research. I have a practical mind, and I was well suited for the trial court bench, not the appellate.
Judy Sheindlin
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Judge
Academic
Consistent
Court
Instance
Realistic
Research
Bench
Talents
Practical
Suited
Trial
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Maybe I was accepted to Harvard only because of my tennis skills, since I definitively had no great academic achievements. I was 17 and only thought about surfing and playing tennis. I had almost never left Rio de Janeiro and had never been to the United States.
Jorge Paulo Lemann
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Banker
Academic
Harvard
Left
Rio
Skills
States
Surfing
Tennis
United States
Since
Achievements
Almost
Maybe
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In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic.
Olivia Colman
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Actress
Girl
Academic
Laughing
School
Ape
Badly
Bee
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The eighteenth century discovery that, in an institutional framework that facilitates voluntary exchanges among individuals, this process generates results that might be evaluated positively, produced 'economics,' as an independent academic discipline or science.
James M. Buchanan
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Economist
Academic
Discipline
Framework
Positively
Results
Eighteenth
Eighteenth Century
Exchanges
Individuals
Institutional
Produced
Voluntary
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A large and growing body of academic research suggests there are market anomalies that can be exploited to beat a strict index approach. Some of that research has been recognized with Nobels in economic science - William F. Sharpe in 1990 and Eugene F. Fama in 2013.
James B. Stewart
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Academic
Strict
Exploited
William
Recognized
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The mission of Patrick Henry College was to attract and cultivate academic stars from the ranks of home-schooled evangelicals, then send them off on graduation day to 'shape the culture and take back the nation,' in the words of a common home-schooling rallying cry.
Nina Easton
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Graduation
Academic
Cry
Rallying
Attract
Cultivate
Evangelicals
Mission
Ranks
Send
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I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.
Leonard Susskind
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Professor
New York
Men
Academic
Father
New York City
Poverty
Smart
Smart Man
Background
York
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I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.
Mindy Kaling
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Actress
Academic
Book
Expectations
Fulfilled
School
Success Good Great
Great Deal
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In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.
Terry Eagleton
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Literary Critic
Business
Academic
Cost
Humanity
Indispensable
Insisting
Mean
Poor
Relation
Stress
Whole
Defended
Humanities
In The End
Protesting
Rather
Role
Stressing
Vital
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Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with one another.
Dennis Prager
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Radio Host
Academic
Culture
Fame
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If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one.
Terry Eagleton
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Literary Critic
Academic
Academic Life
Corporate
Deceptive
Facility
Institute
Philosophy
Term
Training
University
Classical
Vanish
Wake
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Coaches have got to be given rank within the university so that you can't fire a coach unless you go through an academic committee, just as you would with a professor. If coaches are to have any stability and security, they need to be treated like an English professor.
Joe Paterno
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Football Coach
Academic
Fire
Stability
Coach
Committee
Professor
Rank
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Men do really dumb things. We see weapons of mass destruction where there are none. We over-emphasize sports. We place athletic achievement ahead of academic achievement. We spoil and pamper child athletes and then complain when they act spoiled and pampered as adults.
Jason Whitlock
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Sportswriter
Academic
Achievement
Destruction
Dumb
Mass Destruction
Pampered
Spoil
Weapons
Athletes
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As I got into middle school, I was really an outcast. But everybody was an outcast in middle school. I don't know who got the idea to put all kids going through puberty together in a school and give them academic elitism and competition and pit them against each other.
Jordan Gavaris
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Actor
Academic
Elitism
Middle School
Outcast
Puberty
Pit
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Apprenticeships, when they are delivered well, have the potential to offer massive benefits to our employers and our economy as a whole by upskilling our workforce, and offer a vital alternative to those who feel that a more academic route is not the right one for them.
Layla Moran
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Academic
Employers
Workforce
Alternative
Delivered
Right One
Route
Vital
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Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value; relevance of speech is an academic value. Each of these is directly related to the goal of academic inquiry: getting a matter of fact right.
Stanley Fish
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Scholar
Academic
Freedom Of Speech
Goal
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As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to deny that other people have feelings is not just an academic exercise but an all-too-common vice, as we see in the long history of human cruelty.
Steven Pinker
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Psychologist
Academic
Believe
Conscious
Cruelty
Deny
Exercise
Philosophy
Student
Except
Learns
Long History
Vice
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After 20 years of writing academic prose and lectures, it seems very familiar and straightforward to me. Writing a novel for the first time, I was reminded of just how difficult it is to figure out how to get this stuff done when you don't really know what you're doing.
Deborah Harkness
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Novelist
Academic
Familiar
Lectures
Prose
Straightforward
Time Done Me
Time Me Difficult
Reminded
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Acting is a lot of waiting to be picked, and I like to do a lot of things at once. I think I will have to find things that are totally mine. I have so much comfort that school and my academic life are totally mine. I hope that there's not a lot of idleness in my future.
Sarah Steele
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Film Actress
Academic
Acting
Comfort
Idleness
School
Waiting
Life Future Hope
Totally
Mine
Picked
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I kind of got more interested in writing after I turned in my last college essay and nobody was going to tell me what kind of academic papers to write anymore. I could write whatever I wanted, and I realized that I actually liked it when I could choose what I would write.
Dan Millman
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Author
Academic
College
Paper
Papers
Writing
Me Nobody More
Anymore
Interested
Choose
Liked
Essay
Realized
Turned
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I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.
Richard Russo
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Novelist
Academic
Bitter
Self
Self Conscious
Views
Writing
Work Good Always
Grudges
Settle
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I never dreamt I could be an author when I grew up. It just didn't occur to me, because I thought you had to be a) academic, so go to university, things like that, and I didn't think I was clever, or b) dead because I just assumed all the authors in the library were dead.
Geraldine Mccaughrean
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Novelist
Academic
Clever
Me Dead Never
Assumed
Author
Dreamt
Occur
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