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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When I first stepped into the boxing gym, I loved it. I knew it was what I was going to do.
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Off camera, I'm, like, chill and very laid-back. I don't know if the word is 'shy,' but 'reserved.' I'm always thinking.
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You do not need to have a 2,400-page bill come out of Washington, D.C.
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I'm in love with what a high heel does to a leg: how it makes a woman or a man feel. It's empowering.
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I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo. I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer
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Through art, you create your own world.
