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 just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.
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I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.
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If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.
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We tend to think of World War II and all the atrocities that happened, and people say, 'Never again.' But these things are still happening. The Amnesty International files are big.
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The way I grew up, I had hippie parents, and we would run around the garden with no shoes on, very close to nature. So I never wore little princess dresses. I still have this feeling whenever I wear a very formal dress; I always have this slight fear that people will point their fingers at me and laugh: 'Vicky is trying to look like a lady.'
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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.
