Daphne Guinness Quotes
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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My best friend is my husband.
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We can choose food that doesn't lead to illnesses like diabetes and cancer. We can choose food that doesn't contribute to water pollution and climate change. And we can choose food that keeps local economies vibrant and farmers on their land.
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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
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Surely it is more interesting to argue about what the truth is, than about what some particular thinker, however great, did or did not think.
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A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.
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Through art, you create your own world.
