Mark Walport Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
-
The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
-
To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
-
In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
-
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
-
You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
-
Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.
-
The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
-
It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
-
TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'
-
I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
-
When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it.
-
The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
-
I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.
-
Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
-
To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.
-
I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.
-
The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
-
I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.
-
I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I love hard.
-
The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.
-
When you're thinking about your next product or current product and wondering how to make it different so you don't have competition, understand the job the customer needs to get done.
-
I just feel abstinence is the right thing to do. You don't want to ruin the experience of first sex with your wife, by comparing it to what you've done before.
-
When the correct tests are done, GM products are as safe as their non-GM counterparts.
