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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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one they would like to show to the world... Every so often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.
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I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation.
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Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty.
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When shall we find an know this birth of God within us? Only when we concentrate all our faculties within us and direct them all towards God. Then he will be born in us and make himself our very own. He will give himself to us as our own, more completely ours than anything we have ever called our own.
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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.
