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 grew up in the same place as my mother, seeing the same trees my mother saw when she was at work; the flowers I picked were the flowers that my grandma planted. We have different styles; I wouldn't make the same clothes that my mum made, or my grandma, but we have the same taste.
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I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.
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Everywhere, people are discovering that doing things more slowly often means doing them better and enjoying them more. It means living life instead of rushing through it. You can apply this to everything from food to parenting to work.
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If you ask me can you explain the success of Facebook or Twitter, its very simple. People want to have the right to speak, people want the right to say what they feel. They don't want to wait for the question to be asked, they want to say before asking the question, they want to say everything that they feel.
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I'm a curvy girl, and I'm a real girl.
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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.
