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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I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.
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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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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Studies show when people yell, they get themselves even angrier. Interesting factoid: If you and/or your partner's heartbeat becomes higher than 100 beats per minute during an argument, you will not be able to fully understand/process what the other is saying.
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I started putting a wire up in secret and performing without permission. Notre Dame, the Sydney Harbor Bridge, the World Trade Center. And I developed a certitude, a faith that convinced me that I will get safely to the other side. If not, I will never do that first step.
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Every status update you read on Facebook, every tweet or text message you get from a friend, is competing for resources in your brain with important things like whether to put your savings in stocks or bonds, where you left your passport, or how best to reconcile with a close friend you just had an argument with.
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A woman's whole life is spent making chicken curry while her husband works. Then, any time he likes, he can kick her out.
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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.