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Get the Summary of Rick Reilly's So Help Me Golf in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: This is the book Rick Reilly has been writing in the back of his head since he fell in love with the game of golf at eleven years old. He unpacks and explores all of the wonderful, maddening, heart-melting, heart-breaking, cool, and captivating things about golf that make the game so utterly addictive....
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Get the Summary of Tom Phillips's Humans in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Humans" by Tom Phillips explores the journey of Homo sapiens from their migration out of Africa around 70,000 years ago to the present, highlighting the species' unique adaptability, social structures, and communication skills that contributed to their survival over other human species. The book delves into the human brain's remarkable...
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#1 I was born in 1951, in Manhattan, Kansas. My parents had barely finished high school when they got married, and they soon had me. They chose the name Cassandra after one of my mother's teachers, who had dated my father. I was a freakish name for 1951 rural Kansas.
#2 My father was a salesman, and he was very good at it. He had a fierce competitive streak, and...
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#1 My mother, Janice Marylin Gardner, was born in 1960. She met her husband, Paul Eli Margulies, when she was twenty-one years old. He was fifteen years her senior and nervous about the age difference, but they were together for three years.
#2 My mother, who was born in Brazil, met my father when she was twenty-three, in the original production of My Fair Lady. He was extremely handsome,...
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#1 The Dazed and Confused crew was a group of friends who worked together on the film. They are: Lisa Bruna, casting assistant; Jonathan Burkhart, first assistant camera; John Cameron, first assistant director; Peter Carlson, former reporter for the Washington Post; Jay Clements, Huntsville High School alum; Shavonne Conroy, Huntsville High School alum; and Kahane Cooperman,...
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#1 This book is not about writing, but about living. It will help you find your light from within, and when you turn it on, you'll love what you write.
#2 Viki King's How to Write a Movie in 21 Days is a book that I remember reading when I was a graduate of the School of Cinema at Southern Illinois University. It was full of useful screenwriting know-how and practical,...
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#1 The truth is that everyone dies. The dead can't instill this truth within you, but they can reveal it to an open mind and offer tools and stepping-stones to help you accept it.
#2 The idea that consciousness originates from matter has no basis. It follows that independence from matter, which is what independence from time and space means, would also mean independence...
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#1 I grew up in a household that was not prudish about sex, but I still got the message that sex was wrong because of the general silence and discomfort around the topic. I was fat, and in my mind, fat people were not allowed to be sexual.
#2 I grew up believing that I was not sexually desirable because I was fat. The media I was consuming only reinforced the...
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#1 The North was against being like England, and the South was for being better than England by using England's own economic system.
#2 Connecticut was the first state to ratify the Constitution, and their state motto is Constant, which means they're always up to something. They're always plotting something.
#3 Connecticut is a rich state that loves to...
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#1 The FBI came to my house to ask me if I had any intent to kill a US senator. The reason they were questioning me was because of something I had tweeted. I have always been severely online, and this was not the first time it had gotten me in trouble.
#2 I was six years old in the 1990s, and I was obsessed with my Macintosh computer. It was a portable machine like the one...
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#1 The history of medicine is filled with patients who have turned up at the hospital with an embarrassing and entirely self-inflicted complaint. The human capacity for mischief, misadventure, and downright idiocy is apparently a trait that progress cannot eradicate.
#2 The old sense of the word tumor is not necessarily indicating abnormal tissue growth, but a...
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#1 I was on TV and in movies, but it seems that most of my followers discovered me through Instagram.
#2 Max is the gayest straight man I know. He does not like reading, so I have to read for him. He is married to Tess Sanchez, who used to be the head of casting for Fox TV. He brought my name up when he was casting a new series.
#3 I am a comedian, and I have...
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#1 The fundamental rule of humor is that it's not about you. When people make fun of you, they're not laughing at you. They're laughing with you. That's right. When someone makes a joke at your expense, it's always someone else who's getting the last laugh. It's never you. It was a moment that taught me a lot about life and about comedy. And, just possibly, about...
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#1 A story is a set of events that are connected by a cause and effect relationship. It's a simple concept right. But remember this idea of pattern seeking. Humans love to find order in things. We need to fit things into categories and organize them by what they have in common. Anything unrelated to the category is not worth our time. Stories give us meaning. And...
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#1 There are different types of charisma. Not all of them will make people laugh. You need to be able to make people notice you first. You should be able to convey a sense of authority, focus on the person, and be kind.
#2 Charisma can be conveyed through some distinctive features. People with charisma have been shown to exude self-confidence, an open body language,...
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#1 I have been having sleepovers with my friends since I was a kid. They are a great way to spend time with them and to catch up on gossip.
#2 I had planned to transfer to public school the following year, so this was one of the last group events with my Catholic school buddies. We spent most of the early evening calling the girls on Bobby's second phone line.
#3 I...
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Get the Summary of Maria Bamford's Sure Ill Join Your Cult in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Sure I'll Join Your Cult" by Maria Bamford is a candid memoir that delves into her personal life, mental health struggles, and family dynamics during the Covid pandemic. Maria and her husband Scott form a whimsical "cult" to cope with the pandemic, prioritizing sleep and humor over structure. Maria openly discusses her...
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#1 Barbara Walters was the most powerful woman in news, and she was miserable. The View, her daytime talk show, had suffered through a series of embarrassing controversies in just a few months, and Rosie O'Donnell was largely to blame.
#2 The View, which debuted one year before Sex and the City, even played like the unscripted version. It made the idea of a single...
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#1 In America, we expect a bit more gravity than in other countries.
#2 I want to leave the doctor's office in tears, but instead I walk out feeling like a hypochondriac.
#3 I had my teeth implanted in a dentist's office in America. They were connected and were screwed in with a screwdriver. The pain wasn't bad, since I was already numb. The next day, I...
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#1 I was a born f**k-giver. I gave my f**ks liberally all throughout my childhood and adolescence. I tackled numerous projects, tasks, and standardized tests in order to prove myself worthy of respect and admiration from my family, friends, and even casual acquaintances.
#2 I realized that I didn't care about small things that annoyed me. I RSVP'd no to a couple of...
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