Yves Chauvin Quotes
Like all sciences, chemistry is marked by magic moments. For someone fortunate enough to live such a moment, it is an instant of intense emotion: an immense field of investigation suddenly opens up before you.
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.
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I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
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I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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My father was a fighter pilot, so I moved around the world when I was young. Then I ended up in Kansas. I'd just sort of gravitated toward the arts, and I had always loved music and really loved theater even though I didn't want to act.
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I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
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I don't want to be any more interesting than I am. I love the life that I get to live, which is one of real independence and privacy and autonomy.
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I'm not an Expressionist. I love to look at de Kooning, but I've got this kind of secret life, and that is something that pleases me. I have to try and make something out of it.
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Like all sciences, chemistry is marked by magic moments. For someone fortunate enough to live such a moment, it is an instant of intense emotion: an immense field of investigation suddenly opens up before you.
