Mark Walport Quotes
If you look at U.K. science, we collaborate with people across the whole world, and it's extremely important we continue to do so in the future.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I love so many styles of music.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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I hate competition.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.
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I have a friend that has five kids and she went through a trial separation with her husband, and she didn't have time to be upset. Every now and then, she'd call me on the cell phone and just cry.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.
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Records are one thing, and obviously, without hit songs, you don't have the opportunity to do your shows. But my live show has always been my selling tool.
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When you're a young actor, and you're really fighting to have your place in the world - for me, anyway - it took a mental focus and energy and striving. It took a long time. And it was my whole life.
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The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for disappointment with every success that you deliver because with every success you raise your readers' expectations.
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The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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If you look at U.K. science, we collaborate with people across the whole world, and it's extremely important we continue to do so in the future.
