I used to give a fantastic talk about Frankenstein and Dracula, but I’ve never been able to finish either book.
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Anything by Dostoevsky. I tried!
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Pete Rozelle
Commissioner of the National Football League, 1960–1989
There really wasn’t. That’s one thing I kind of regret. I started reading, and became interested in reading very young. But I read sports books. I read sports pages and newspapers. That’s one thing that I would like to have had that I missed, reading more scholarly books than I did. I was so devoted to sports.
I’m not really ashamed, but I haven’t read Lord of the Rings.
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View profile →That there is time. I doggedly prioritise and pursue tasks, and the day seems to open out and everything does get done. Chill.
Insular, creative and mechanically minded.
I suspect it hasn’t happened yet.
I don’t want to get into an early death spiral, when you’re scaling down your life unnecessarily because you’ve already been there or done that. I never want to stop adventuring.
A criminal pathologist. Then I saw a show called Quincy ME and realised I just wanted to play one on TV.
They tend to say it behind my back.
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