John Sulston Quotes
I don't want a few extra weeks of life at enormous cost, for example, when it comes to the end.
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It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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A lot of cats are not that social.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
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I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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There is some information that an actor doesn't need, and that's okay. I can't control everything. I don't want to control everything. Sometimes, you want to control everything, and you want to know the size of the lens and stuff like that. I am so relaxed as an actor because I don't want to control everything. I just want to control my part.
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Everyone has a different opinion; every country has a different way of doing things. But I do believe that we need a regulatory body so that everyone who owns or manages wildlife is subject to inspection and rated on how well they look after the animals and how the communities benefit.
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I want to be an actor - I don't want to be a celebrity. They are two different things, and people have forgotten that they are different.
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The White Knight must not have whiskers; he must not be made to look old.
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It's best to give advice in only two circumstances; when it's requested, and when it's a life threatening situation.
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I don't want a few extra weeks of life at enormous cost, for example, when it comes to the end.
