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#1 The IBM team that designed Deep Blue made the brilliant decision to design the machine to appear more uncertain than it was. During the six-game match, the machine would occasionally hold off from declaring its move for several minutes. From Kasparov's end of the table, the delays made it look as if the machine was struggling.
#2 The story of Deep Blue defeating the...
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#1 I went to rehab in 2009 to get clean from alcohol, pills, and grass. I was assigned a therapist named Dr. Harold Roberts, who asked me if I had ever considered myself a sex addict. I laughed and said no, but he continued to write down notes.
#2 I used to keep track of every single girl I ever met or slept with. I would write their names, phone numbers, and ratings....
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Get the Summary of Brian Moylan's The Housewives in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In the spring of 2006, a new kind of show premiered on Bravo: The Real Housewives of Orange County. Its stars were tanned, taut, and bedazzled, their homes were echoey California villas, and their drama was gossip-fueled, wine-drenched, and absolutely exquisite. Fifteen seasons on, RHOC is an institution,...
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#1 I was born in London in 1936, and during the war years I was sent to different schools. My mother, a wonderful woman, battled on to operate her salon while my father was in the army.
#2 I had a difficult time respecting my father, who was a Willy Loman figure in Death of a Salesman. He was adorable, but also one of the funniest men I've ever known. He used to send...
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#1 When we stop trying to be original, we can embrace influence instead of running away from it. We can stop trying to make something out of nothing, and instead embrace influence.
#2 You are a mix of what you choose to allow into your life. You are the result of your influences. German writer Goethe said, “We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
#3 The artist is a collector....
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Get the Summary of Seth Rogen's Yearbook in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Yearbook is a collection of true stories that I desperately hope are just funny at worst, and life-changingly amazing at best. (I understand that it's likely the former, which is a fancy "book" way of saying "the first one.")
I talk about my grandparents, doing stand-up comedy as a teenager, bar mitzvahs, and...
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#1 The town of Breda, Holland, is a picture postcard of European charm and character. The van Gend en Loos building, which houses an upscale menswear shop, was originally built as a strategic fortress in the fourteenth century.
#2 The van Kuijk family could be traced back to the Middle Ages, when they were a wealthy, aristocratic family that ruled the small town of Hoogstraten....
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#1 Ballet is a staple of American childhood, and the popularity of televised dance competitions like So You Think You Can Dance and Dancing with the Stars has helped create a growing market for private dance education.
#2 The ballet competition scene was a rapidly growing industry before the pandemic, and it is not only the stories of the lucky and talented few who become...
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#1 Your comfort zone is a place of your choosing that feeds your anxiety neutral position. It is a very good feeling to be in your comfort zone, but remember that it comes with a cost. When your anxiety level is neutral or minimal, your stress level comes down, and this is because you don't have to deal with any crisis or uncertainty.
#2 Introverts have a tendency to...
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#1 I was born in 1933 in London, England. I suffered from rickets, a disease of poverty that causes weak bones, and I tottered up and down those stairs in surgical boots. I left school at 16 with a small handful of exam passes, and found and got sacked from a handful of menial office jobs.
#2 I learned early on that everything can have its good side for you personally....
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#1 The two questions that should be asked at a reading are: Am I in the light. And can I be heard. The auditors will always be happy to tell you where the light is, since it's a lot easier for them to see you than search for you in darkness.
#2 The two legitimate questions an actor may ask at an audition are: If you are asked to read cold, should you have time to go...
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#1 White is a difficult color to make. It can't be mixed together with other colors, and anything you add to it will only take it in one direction: toward black. It is also toxic.
#2 White has long been connected with money and power. Only the wealthy could afford to keep their fresh lace and linen cuffs, ruffs, and cravats pristine. This still holds true today.
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Get the Summary of Cicely Tyson's Just As I Am in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: "Just As I Am is my truth. It is me, plain and unvarnished, with the glitter and garland set aside. In these pages, I am indeed Cicely, the actress who has been blessed to grace the stage and screen for six decades. Yet I am also the church girl who once rarely spoke a word. I am the teenager who sought...
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#1 God can get tiny if we are not careful. We all have an image of God that becomes the touchstone, the controlling principle, to which we return when we stray.
#2 I was told that I would get Good Mike on the show, but instead, I was subjected to the insensitivity of Mike Wallace, a 60 Minutes film crew, and a parishioner who was there to interview me. In the end, Wallace turned to...
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#1 In 1969, the Stooges released the definitive collection of punk classics with their eponymous debut album. The Stooges' songs punched, spat, and kicked against the pricks, but above all, they pointed an accusatory finger at the middle-class indulgences of the West Coast's hippy scenesters and the arty habits of Warhol's Factory fops.
#2 Following the divorce, Virginia...
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#1 Rock stars were extremely popular in the 1960s, and teenage girls like Pamela were obsessed with them. She was especially fond of the Beatles' Paul McCartney, and she began daydreaming about him sexually.
#2 The rules of this world had been codified by the 1980s, and MTV was thriving. Rock stars outlived the Los Angeles scene that Des Barres chronicled, and they outlived...
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#1 I was born in 1976 in New York. My parents, Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle, loved me, or at least they grew to love me. My father told me when I was a teenager that he didn't want me at first, but my mother insisted on having me.
#2 My mother and her sisters were performers, and I was brought up in the music business. I was never baptized, but I went to...
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#1 I had little exposure to visual art as a child. I do remember, though, the day that my lack of knowledge of Claude Monet moved from a bedroom wall to the greater world. We had visited a Monet exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, and my father and I had laughed at his paintings.
#2 I grew up thinking that Monet was a dull painter, and that he was just...
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#1 In 1997, Radiohead guitarist Thom Yorke had a mental breakdown. He left the band and escaped to find the right metaphor to express his anguish. He spent the next several years trying to disappear completely.
#2 Thom Yorke, the lead singer of Radiohead, found his fame to be a closed loop of omnipresent discomfort, perpetual awkwardness, and inescapable impotency.
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#1 The impact of globalization on southwest Virginia was not being documented by other media outlets. It was up to writers and photographers like Jared and me to paint the long-view picture of what had happened when, one after another, the textile and then the furniture factories closed and set up shop in Mexico, China, and Vietnam.
#2 The town of Galax, about seventy...
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