Seen Heard &
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a creative artist, the most important thing you can do is to transcend your own fear and encourage collaborators to do the same.” Steven Bernstein, cinematographer on films such as Monster, Underworld and Half Baked, speaking to a Dodge College winter interterm class on staging and filming stunts.
“Of course there is some legal justification for the position Nixon was taking. He was drawing on Lincoln and FDR. And to me, sadly, the Nixonian view might be even more prominent in the aftermath of 9/11, where things like torture and our violation — blatant violation — of our international treaties have become the norm rather than the exception.” John Dean, former White House counsel to President Nixon, reacting to a news clip of Nixon saying, “When the president does it that means it’s not illegal.” Dean spoke during a January symposium at the School of Law that marked the 40th anniversary of Watergate.
“The charity work I imposed on my athletes helped eliminate some of the self-absorption. It helped them to understand themselves better as community leaders.”
“Particle physics largely is an attempt to understand nothing. Once we understand the vacuum, the rest is kind of trivial.” David Gross, Ph.D., Nobel Prize-winning physicist, speaking at the Sandhu Conference Center.
Leigh Steinberg, sports superagent on whom the film Jerry Maguire was based, speaking to entrepreneurship students in Beckman Hall.
“The events are very hard to write about. I make everything become fiction … to create a distance that allows me to approach the subject because it is so horrible and I am so involved in it.” Alicia Kozameh, Argentine author and former political prisoner, on why she expresses her experiences in fiction rather than biography. She spoke at Leatherby Libraries as part of the Fowles Series. SPRING 2012
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