Kate Crawford Quotes
Numbers can't speak for themselves, and data sets - no matter their scale - are still objects of human design.
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There's this really good line in 'Women in Love' where Ursula says, 'I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.' And actually I think that's very common, it's what a lot of people feel - that you have an obligation to life to be happy if you can.
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I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
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The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.
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When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
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It's through engagement with the world, and not separation from it, that something with meaning gets produced.
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But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make.
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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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You are not a problem that needs solving.
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I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.
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Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
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If Madrid does not want an accord, and the majority of Catalans want an independent state, how can you avoid that?
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If I'm brave, 99% of it comes from my mother.
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The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
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When I came into the WWF, the first thing I really didn't want to have was being Bret Hart's little brother.
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I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Urban planning and design are helping us to shift from a car-centric system to a bike-centric one by making bicycles and bicycle infrastructure superior in functionality and attractiveness.
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People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.
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'I think some of these schemes - and I think particularly of the Jimmy Carr scheme - I have had time to read about and I just think this is completely wrong.
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Back when we started, people didn't even know what a submarine sandwich was. The product was only sold in a few markets.
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Numbers can't speak for themselves, and data sets - no matter their scale - are still objects of human design.
