Mark Walport Quotes

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• One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Fear
  • Action
  • Take

• Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Dream
  • Interesting

• I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil... and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to do this, go to Iowa and do some community theatre. It's all about self-promotion, and it's not always the fun part of it.

  

  Gail O'Grady
  • Fun
  • Community
  • Evil

• I know everything about Michael Jordan.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Know
  • Everything
  • Jordan

• I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Work
  • Me
  • Kind

• If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Thinking
  • Home
  • Failure

• When I'm out there, you just have to react. That's why you work on those throws. When you're in the moment, you can't think to yourself, 'How do I get this to go 47 yards and be 2 yards inside the sideline?'

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Work
  • Why
  • Yourself

• Boron is carbon's neighbor on the periodic table, which means it can do a passable carbon impression and wriggle its way into the matrix of a diamond. But it has one fewer electron, so it can't quite form the same four perfect bonds.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Perfect
  • Same
  • Neighbor

• When I first played '1234' it was on stage in San Francisco at some kind of, like, sticky-floored club. And it felt like a punk song. I mean it's ridiculous to say that now, but it had that kind of, like, piercing straight melody. And then this fist-pumping ending, you know that pa-dap-pada.

  

  Feist
  • Song
  • Know
  • Ending

• I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books – but you do your own learning in your own way.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Want
  • Way
  • Learning

• I think when you're 17 and you're angry, you're angry about very short-term things. And there's nothing wrong about writing that record. It's a very real record to write; it's the realest record I could write when I was 17. The problem is, when you're 28, it's not the same thing; it can be a put-on.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Problem

• After watching films of Jim Brown, I noticed that he never ran out of bounds. He always ran North and South and that's what I turned my style into. I was a North and South runner.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Style
  • Always
  • Never

• It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Great
  • Death
  • Earth

• I hate the feeling of having hair on my neck.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Feeling
  • Hate
  • Hair

• Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Law
  • Support
  • Immigration

• In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up for use.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Up
  • Work
  • Daily

• It's a privilege and it's an honour and Olivia and I are certainly looking forward to visiting this beautiful, historic building and being able to stay there during the session when we're here in Ottawa.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Beautiful

• How do Crays and Alphas handle the POSIX problem?

  

  Larry Wall

• Funny thing is, until I met you all I wanted to do was to get as far away from here as I could. Kind of ironic, isn't it? Can't get much farther away than where I"m going, and now I'd give anything to stay.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Funny
  • Ironic

• There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.

  

  Hugh MacDiarmid
  • Ruined
  • Buildings
  • Stones

• Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangerous as both or either.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Music
  • Magic
  • Dangerous

• Gollum was so interesting to me because he's morally ambivalent, and I love the notion of a quest that is to lose something. Not to gain, but to get rid of something.

  

  Andy Serkis
  • Interesting

• Politics may be the art of the possible; but, at least in life, give the impossible a go.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Art
  • May
  • Impossible

• Sharing data allows us to research, communicate, consume media, buy and sell, play games, and more. In return, businesses develop products, scientists undertake research, and governments use data to enable voting, inform policies, collect tax, and provide better public services.

  

  Mark Walport