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Terry Gross
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 14
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The [Bernie] Sanders campaign said you might be suppressing the vote by doing this 'cause people in those states might decide to stay home, that their vote doesn't count.
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Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions. What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being 'found out.' It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.
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The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person whom you are about to discover. You know, like maybe the character actors who are just coming into their own and you're realizing how great they are.
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Hillary [Clinton] has been very guarded with the press.
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I really believe people should be paid for the work that they do.
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And once you say this is true, you start naming the beast that hurts you - so I started doing this. Other truths come out.
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I thought it was interesting when [Bill Clinton] said, I married my best friend, because people are always asking, what is the nature of their marriage.
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[Hillary Clinton] really wants to be president. She wanted to be president in '08. She's hardly left the spotlight.
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I mean, Dad was one of these people who simply could not lose, you know? He could not stand it when a kid was beating him. He would go crazy when the child came to that moment, which, you know, you have to come to - I mean, Dad played Old Maids like he played football. He just simply had to win every single thing every single time.
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Google started as a free search engine. It's still free, but now it's making a lot of money on ads, right? A lot of money.
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The sex drive is one of the most fundamental human urges, and throughout history, there have been laws regulating what is considered acceptable sexual behavior. In the past century, the law has had trouble keeping up with changing social and moral standards.
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I'm really interested in, who's booked the guests, who's decided to have Lena Dunham and to have the mothers of sons who were shot - sons and daughters who were shot by the police and, you know, the other performers, Paul Simon and Alicia Keys.
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Gene Wilder made his movie debut in Bonnie And Clyde, starred in the Mel Brooks films The Producers, Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles, played opposite Richard Pryor in Silver Streak and Stir Crazy and portrayed the candy-maker in Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory.
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I don't think my father noticed that he had daughters. I think, you know, part of the damage of the childhood was, I simply don't think they were acknowledged as human beings at all. Or - you know, one of the reasons I became a cook later on in my life was, I was not allowed to cook an egg.
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Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.
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We grew up as this family of deniers. And people who knew us for years were stunned when The Great Santini came out because we had this appearance of being this happy, large, smiling family. We were taught to smile, put the best face forward. And so when the book ended up - Dad swatting us around the room, no one believed me.
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I respect someone's right to privacy and I want them to know it.
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When we spoke, Gene Wilder had just written a memoir called Kiss Me Like A Stranger. The title was suggested by his late wife Gilda Radner three weeks before she died in 1989.
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I was thinking about comedy and how comedy in many ways opens us up to ideas and really being influenced by Richard Pryor and sort of the way he would use comedy to really speak about larger social issues.
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There should be a revenue stream that helps pay for the publication or for the work and helps pay the people who do it.
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