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...Once we get the collection that we have in very good shape, I hope we will be able to expand the collection, and develop a niche where Harvard will be known as the great collection for nonfiction, or personal cinema, or experimental cinema, while still maintaining European art films,” Jenkins said...
Caro has said that he writes biographies “not just to show the life of a great man” but also “to use biography as a means of illuminating the times and the great forces that shape the times...
...when you have surgery in the off-season, arrive at preseason camp in less than stellar shape and drop $4 million on a ring, you need to play to get paid...
...psychometric world, developed abilities are distinct from school achievements. To understand the difference, consider a sports metaphor: if you learn to hit free throws 90% of the time, that's a stellar basketball achievement. But what if you're so out of shape that you can't run up and down the court? Then your achievement won't matter much in an actual game. Your level of physical fitness is a developed ability: it's both an innate skill that helps determine how well you play basketball and an outcome of playing lots of basketball. Similarly, the more you challenge...
...able to accept the cards you’ve been given, if you’re not able to rejoice when fortune throws you a good hand even though you had nothing to do with it, if you’re not able to use your skill to shape circumstances of luck, then you can’t play poker. No amount of thinking or explaining can build this skill. It involves a willingness to sit down and simply allow sheer experience and passage of time to fill the gaps in your knowledge, and to sit down as a novice...