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...family’s] goal is really to solidify the club so judo can persist after we leave,” he said. “We tried to just raise awareness that judo is out there, and if you want to be able to compete at a national level … you can do all that by joining the judo club...
...don’t want to hire just a bunch of old Masters who are fuddy-duddies who will do what has been done before,” Palfrey said. “You want to hire people who will say, ‘This is what we can do with this system...
...believe that parents and people who really care about you, they want the best for you and they want your suffering and your challenges to be as minimized as possible. They definitely, I would say, advised me to be wary of that career pathway because of the immense personal and financial risks associated with pursuing a career in entertainment...
...erased by the internal filter that erases things for the same reason you’d forget swatting a mosquito. The inconsequential gets erased. I don’t think of it as a book of stories. It’s a book. It feels unified. But I did want to write discrete stories because that’s how the world has been coming at me for all these years...
...Brien: I was an anonymous veteran. I didn’t mention to anybody except my best friend here that I was even in Vietnam, much less that I was a soldier in Vietnam. It wasn’t out of any shame. I just didn’t want to have anyone look at me in any way beyond what I was, which was a student here. I didn’t want to explain myself to people–not out of any motive except it’s hard, and I didn’t want...