Mark Oliphant Quotes
It was essential to do this job, hateful though it was, because we knew the Germans were hot on the trail.
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We take the show very seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously.
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The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs.
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If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I would love to work on a Bond film.
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All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.
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It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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Art is nothing tangible. We cannot call a painting 'art' as the words 'artifact' and 'artificial' imply. The thing made is a work of art made by art, but not itself art. The art remains in the artist and is the knowledge by which things are made.
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I try to get as close as I can to cleaning out my inbox every night.
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If you don't love yourself, you can't love anybody else. And I think as women we really forget that.
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If a director wants to give me a job, I sometimes ask them to screen-test me. Then they can't sort of blame me if they're not getting what they wanted later on. It's like, 'You fucking hired me; you saw what you were getting.'
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It was essential to do this job, hateful though it was, because we knew the Germans were hot on the trail.
