Martin Chalfie Quotes
I do think of this prize as the GFP prize, and I happen to fortunately be one of the people that goes along for the ride.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.
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All over the world, children facing the challenges of poverty attend schools that aren't designed to meet their extra needs; across country lines, the lives of marginalized kids look far more similar than they do different.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.
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I'm letting inspiration move me, in whatever direction it may, without concern if this sounds too rap or too indie, or there's too many words in it.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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It's hard to sell a brand without having a face to it.
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Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
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Anyone can look beautiful.
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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I thought Love lived in the hot sunshine, But O, he lives in the moony light! I thought to find Love in the heat of day, But sweet Love is the comforter of night.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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I think we invite people into our living rooms every week through the television because we have emotional connections to them, or they make us laugh or reflect some part of ourselves that we want to live in.
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In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time.
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Despair is an act of resignation I am not willing to make.
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I do think of this prize as the GFP prize, and I happen to fortunately be one of the people that goes along for the ride.
