Word: goings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...admit it. The glasses were entirely fake. I have 20/20 vision. But for several weeks, I wore those lenses almost every day. And I wore them with pride. Having the glasses encouraged me to go to Lamont to do work, as though I simply belonged there now that I had the right equipment. I relished the moment when, curled up in a chair on the first floor reading room, engrossed in George Eliot, I slowly removed my glasses with a nonchalant sigh and rubbed by tired eyes, before carefully placing the glasses back on my head and returning...
...think for me as a filmmaker the biggest thing I learned is that you as a filmmaker really can’t impose your narrative on somebody else. And when he and his community responded to that FBI raid [of their mosque]...they were saying that things were going to work out for them, and they were going to be better people. I had trouble comprehending that. You have to be super, super patient and sometimes go beyond your comfort zone to really capture the story...
...this insecurity results in a daily battle against the airheaded seventh-grade Julia. Note to self: appear brooding in English seminar even if have not completed reading. Note to self: Pamplona is for hipsters only, do not go there in workout clothes; hipsters don’t work out. The list goes...
...decided to go to Harvard even though by that time you were pretty immersed in the design world and had the opportunity to study at some of the top design schools. How did you make that decision? Have you ever regretted it? LEG: I do think it was a great decision. I have never regretted it. I didn’t want to go just to an art school. I think art is so great, but I really wanted to surround myself with people with all different interests and talents and passions because I believed it would help...
...While at Harvard, you participated in designing the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub. How did you envision the design and did it meet your expectations? Do you find yourself going back to enjoy the fruits of your labor? LEG: The Queen’s Head was probably one of my greatest accomplishments, I’d say. It started off with the dream of having a pub in Loker Commons which at the time was just this terribly underused space. And there were a couple of times where we had to stand our ground...