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If you are succesfull for 20 years, you can't expect to stay on the same level all through that period. A career has its ups and downs and in-betweens.

Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche.

Somewhere in that 20-year period, I would assume that there will be some basically new approach that will begin to cut into it, but it's got a long time.

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

On a deeper level, there's a level of privacy that I need in order to work, and if there's been a time when there's been a lot of publicness in my life, it can be a little bit difficult to sort of rebuild that private space.

I probably complicate things unnecessarily now just to give the illusion of professionalism.

This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life.