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" I had a doctorate in biological anthropology. I got a post-doc at CWRU dental school in 1983 teaching gross anatomy. "
Mary Doria Russell
Anatomy
Anthropology
Got
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" Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council. "
Mary Doria Russell
Because
Good
Cleveland
" John Henry Holliday didn't have a mother to love him when he was grown, so I have taken him for my own. My fondest hope for Doc is that it will win for him the compassion and respect I think he deserves. "
Mary Doria Russell
Respect
Compassion
Hope
" When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology. "
Mary Doria Russell
Poetry
Studying
City
" Instead of taking a year off, I started 'Dreamers of the Day' exactly 36 hours after I sent the manuscript for 'A Thread of Grace' to the publisher! "
Mary Doria Russell
Off
Started
Grace
" I live and die with the Indians. The first game I attended back in the mid-'90s was almost a religious experience. We were down by six and won by two, and it was glorious. The stadium is so beautiful, and the way it frames the city when you're sitting high above the second base line is spectacular. "
Mary Doria Russell
Beautiful
Experience
Game
" Who doesn't love a makeover? Even my husband watches 'What Not To Wear.' "
Mary Doria Russell
Even
Who
Wear
" In my worldview, there are filers, and there are pilers. Filers think alphabetically. Pilers think geologically. "
Mary Doria Russell
Think
Worldview
" The characters I'm most emotionally involved with are like friends you leave behind when you move away. You don't see them regularly anymore, but you still love them and keep in touch. "
Mary Doria Russell
Friends
Love
Touch
" Maybe if I'd studied writing instead of anthropology, I'd be more sensible. You know - pick a genre, follow the rules, stay in the box - but let's face it. Sensible people don't major in anthropology. "
Mary Doria Russell
Writing
Face
Know
" If somebody honks a horn in Cleveland, they're saying 'Hi.' It's so rare to be honked at in anger. When we have merging traffic, we just interweave. There's real courtesy. "
Mary Doria Russell
Courtesy
Anger
Real
" Like so many Boomers, I saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' in 1962 when it was first released and when we were young teenagers. I'm not quite sure why - I really wish some psychologist would explain this - but that movie had a tremendous effect on many of us. "
Mary Doria Russell
Explain
Wish
Why
" The Doc Holliday of legend is a gambler and gunman who appears out of nowhere in 1881, arriving in Tombstone with a bad reputation and a hooker named Big Nose Kate. "
Mary Doria Russell
Out
Bad
Big