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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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#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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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#1 The neck is a dead giveaway. It starts to go at 43, and there's nothing you can do about it. You can put makeup on your face and concealer under your eyes, but that won't help you conceal your neck.
#2 If you are a certain age, you try to avoid looking in the mirror. If you have to, you begin by squinting so that if anything bad is looking back at you, you are already...
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#1 We are constantly being bombarded with information, and it is up to us to separate sense from nonsense. We must learn how to scrutinize that information in the light of what we already know.
#2 Scientific knowledge is gained through a distillation of the relevant peer-reviewed literature. And that literature is the altar at which scientists worship. But there...
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#1 I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the day. I have pictured my loved ones coming to my apartment to collect my things, and I have hoped that it would only be lived-in messy. But that is never going to happen.
#2 I have dated a lot of men who have given me a contribution to my pony collection....
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#1 A man was on his way to a job interview in Los Angeles when he died in a train accident. His fiancée heard about the crash while driving to the train station with his parents and siblings. Twelve hours after the accident, rescuers found him dead in the wreckage.
#2 A taxi driver was driving past a hospital one night when he was requested to take a young...
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#1 The meaning of life is a slippery subject. There are questions beyond scientific observation that are called metaphysics. The telos of human life is happiness, but it's not everybody's cup of tea.
#2 The structure of reality is slippery. Some philosophers draw a distinction between essential and accidental properties. The way Aristotle put it is that essential...
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Get the Summary of Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "My Year of Rest and Relaxation" follows a 24-year-old woman in New York City in 2000 who embarks on a year-long hibernation, sustained by prescription drugs. She spends her days in a semi-conscious state, avoiding human contact except for interactions with a few regulars, including her psychiatrist Dr. Tuttle,...
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#1 In September 2012, the movie Mad Max: Fury Road was filming in the Namib Desert. It was behind schedule and over budget, and its lead, Tom Hardy, often failed to show up to set. Warner Bros. head Jeff Robinov threatened to shut down the film early, and eventually Miller was forced to choose between the chase scene or the beginning and end of the film.
#2 Miller's...
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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 coming up on thirty, and I was broke, but I didn't want to think about that anymore. I was drifting through the crowd to the bottom of the island, past the barbeque families waving little flags back at the ships, lugging their ice chests and folding chairs.
#2 In the harbor, I can imagine my mother's eyes, coming from a terrible war that nearly destroyed...
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#1 I was offered the role of Westley in The Princess Bride, a character created in a renowned novel that had long been considered incapable of being adapted for the screen. I had read the book and loved it.
#2 I was approached to play the role of Westley in The Princess Bride, a role that was originally written for a British actor. I was not used to this level...
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#1 I was born on June 28, 1926, in Brooklyn, New York. I was the last child born to Kate Kaminsky, whose maiden name was Katie Brookman. I was the center of attention as I was the baby of the family. My father died when I was six years old, leaving me with a lasting frustration about not having a father.
#2 My brothers were all wonderful, and even though they didn't...
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