Mark Walport Quotes
The most dangerous infections of humans have always been those which have emerged from other species.
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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
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I get bored easily.
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.
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I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It's in my blood.
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English has always had a special fondness for other European languages, a neighborly soft spot - perhaps because Britain has been invaded by speakers of those languages from the onset of its recorded history.
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There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.
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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system; work keeps it in health and order.
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Actually, I used to be a busboy in a strip joint in New York and so I hate strip joints. I'm not that kind of person.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
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I went to theater school, and if I spent time with one school of thought in this whole acting game, it's the Meisner approach of improvise-based acting. This does not mean that you improvise your acting, but that you focus on the other person.
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With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.
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People are fond of that 'crabs in a barrel' mentality, and I'm like, 'No, there needs to be more so we can create more barrels; there doesn't need to be one barrel.'
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I wanted to play this part: the goofy rock and roller who can't hang up his guitar when it's clear to everyone else that he should.
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My Chinese side comes out in my dancing. There's a certain in-the-moment sentimentality, an appreciation for the smallest details.
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The bipolar world of the Cold War is history. The new world order, however, is not the One World dreamed of by Wilsonian idealists. It is a Balkanizing world where race, tribe, culture and creed matter most, and democracy is seen not as an end in itself but as a means to an end - the accretion of power by one's own kind to achieve one's own dreams.
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I think having kids has been the biggest influence on my work since I started publishing.
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Dad never misses a chance to remind me that whenever we are travelling together, if 100 people mob him for autographs, five approach me.
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I want to produce the music to a movie that I'm working on, like what Prince did with 'Purple Rain.'
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There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.
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The most dangerous infections of humans have always been those which have emerged from other species.
