John Sulston Quotes
As far back as I remember, and earlier, I was an artisan, a maker and doer. Mechanically minded, my parents said.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Many a man owes his advancement very largely to his ability to converse well. The ability to interest people in your conversation, to hold them, is a great power.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.
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I don't take story input from fans.
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A few years ago, when I had no work and started believing that films weren't a viable career, I thought of finding another job. I started training and riding horses and got consumed by that. It was a boon in disguise.
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I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
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I’ll go and buy an island and live underwater in a re-breather with Kleenex boxes on my feet.
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I think the audience doesn't know a movie's lit, but they feel it. Because you've walked in a forest many times, or in a park, so you know how it looks. When you start lighting, subconsciously you know there is something that is absolutely wrong.
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I love short stories, but I've never had the impulse to write one. Same for ghost stories.
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I remember when people called Facebook a fad.
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Remember, there was no Palestine as a state. It was part of the Ottoman Empire. I think that we've had an invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs and who were historically part of the Arab community.
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As far back as I remember, and earlier, I was an artisan, a maker and doer. Mechanically minded, my parents said.
