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Sasha was not a normal kid. His parents told me he was a genuine child genius. Spoke three languages, did 12th-grade math, played violin and piano - if you read Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game or saw Little Man Tate, you know the type...
...homeland, but also owes a few of its cadences to California. Yet Ringo sees himself as a typical Liverpudlian at least in one respect. "I bring humor to the fore," he says. "It's a defense. Give me an opening and I'm in. When I was a kid, you went to the pub and people would have some sort of quick retort to what you said. A lot of it would put you down, but it would also bring...
When I was a kid, I did an interview with my grandmother and her sister. My grandmother was this larger-than-life character and her parents had died in the flu epidemic of 1918. They were orphans, and she raised up her sisters. And I interviewed her and two of her sisters. My grandmother died when I was 15; the other sisters died; and when I was 17, I went looking for that tape. I wasn't able to find it. And still, to this day, when I go to my parents' house, I go searching for that tape...
...brought his grandmother to the booth, a very typical kind of interview. At the end of the interview, he says, "Grandma, is there anything you want to tell me that you haven't told me before?? She said, "Well, I want you to know that when I was a kid, I was molested by my uncle." She hadn't told anybody in the family about that. It's an opportunity to kind of clear the slate and put the truth out on the table. I know it was very important to her and to her whole family, the whole interview...
...Since I was a little kid I wanted to be here—this was my place, where I wanted to learn,” Woo said...