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I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.

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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

I have divers times examined the same matter (human semen) from a healthy man. . . not from a sick man. . . nor spoiled by keeping. . . for a long time and not liquefied after the lapse of some time. . . but immediately after ejaculation before six beats of the pulse had intervened; and I have seen so great a number of living animalcules. . . in it, that sometimes more than a thousand were moving about in an amount of material the size of a grain of sand. . . I saw this vast number of animalcules not all through the semen, but only in the liquid matter adhering to the thicker part.

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Man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

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Whenever I found something remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people be informed thereof.

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I observed certain animalcules, within whole bodies I saw so quick a motion as to exceed belief; they were about the size of a large grain of sand, and their bodies being transparent, that the internal motion could plainly be seen. Among other things, I saw in the body of one of these animalcules a bright and round corpuscle, placed near the head, and in which a very wonderful swift motion was to be seen, consisting of an alternate extension and contraction. This particle I concluded to be the heart.

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I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've taken no notice those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it?

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In the year 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water.

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