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...Except the trouble is, as a creator...I saw a lovely analogy recently. Somebody said that writers are like otters. And otters are really hard to train. Dolphins are easy to train. They do a trick, you give them a fish, they do the trick again, you give them a fish. They will keep doing that trick until the end of time. Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time they'll do a better trick or a different trick because they'd already done that one. And writers tend to be otters...
...extraordinary glimpse of Chinese life some 2,000 years ago: how people dressed, what they ate, what weapons they carried, what forms of transportation they used, what kinds of houses they lived in. One extremely well-modeled terra-cotta cook, probably from a Sichuan tomb, is intently scaling fish at his workbench. His eyes are fixed, his sleeves are rolled up, and his hat looks very much like a French chef's toque...
...Fish says that’s a keystone of Harvard’s athletic mission. The school boasts 41 varsity programs, and yet “we don’t treat our athletes like prima donnas...
...Fish said, “the gift of omission,” and “James is sort of the epitome of what most of the rest of our guys are, though in a less dramatic fashion...
...James knows,” Fish said, “and now he’s not going to be happy with anything less...