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Lewis Thomas Quotes

My father was a doctor, and I admired him and got along well with him. He took me with him on house calls. We were living in Flushing, which was then a sleepy village of 25,000 - before the subway got there. I've been sure I wanted to be a doctor since I was about 12.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 25, 1913 - December 3, 1993

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Father Me Doctor House Village Him

I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything - not very well, but I manage to hammer out a drum beat and a bass idea.

Play Band Everything Hammer Out

I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.

Work Hard Work Growing Up Growing Up

Forget 'full of myself,' I'm not remotely impressed with myself.

Myself Forget Impressed Full

It's important to understand that you have to dedicate time to your sponsors, to have relationships with the people and the media, but it is also hard when you are first coming up and your primary focus is on tennis.

Time Focus People Media You Tennis

A crisis, by its very nature, is a negative event.

Nature Negative Crisis Event Very

I do think, with people in comedy, you can have your time, as it were, and then you don't realise that it might have gone. I hope it hasn't for me. I think what I do is, I just... I just try to plough my own furrow, in a way.

Hope Time People Me Think Comedy

I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way.

Jonathan Lethem

Good Luck Good Luck Building Result

I'm lucky to have a great support system in my friends and some of my family. If you have those people that you trust, go ahead and fall back into them and let them be your hammock and cocoon and let them embrace you.

Family Great Trust Support People

There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.

Yourself Doing Look Things How Ways

I do love being in my studio. Especially at night.

Love Night Being Studio

I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle.

Eagle Always High Shooting Low Than

When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.

Man Blue Identity Rose Book Learn

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