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...Look, I mean I went into this race ranked fifth in the world, I’m a 41-year-old mom, not expecting to do anything, so the fact that I did get a silver is a great thing. I just like to win, so that’s why I think it’ll always eat at me that I lost by that close of a time...
...Absolutely. I mean, you’re not going to be some person off the street, put a suit on and break a world record, but I felt a difference when I dove in the pool. I felt like I was just sort of skyrocketing through the water...like I was floating on top of the water more so than I already do. I definitely felt a difference when I was swimming and my times dropped—a big drop. I’m glad they’re going back to the old school and it?...
Roses: This could either be really sweet or might mean that they couldn’t remember your favorite kind of flowers and didn’t feel like searching through Brattle Square Florist to find the right ones...
Rebecca N. Goldstein: No, I mean one, I never thought I’d end up writing novels and two, I mean who ever thinks that they’re going to become a MacArthur Fellow? When I got the call I thought it was one of my students putting me on, really. It was a very surreal moment...
...That’s funny because I never did before, but I’ve had all these interviews and they’ll say, “So you’re the atheist.” What I mean by having a soul is having the capacity for ontological wonder—wondering at existence itself, being overwhelmed by it. I think every artist has got to have soul in this sense and not just artists either—even great scientists do, great mathematicians do. They have this kind of ability to be drawn outside of themselves...