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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You know, I think what people want more than anything is they just want people to do what they say they're going to do.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man's inhumanity to man, and man's destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man's humanity to man and man's reverence for the place in which he lives.
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Filmmaking is such a collaborative piece of art that you can't look to one person - you couldn't look to me, you couldn't say, 'Because Vin's in it, it's this or that...' It's really all of us coming together for that period of time to try and make magic.
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What is fascinating to me is the way I view everything in terms of parallels and connections. When I read about Achilles and Odysseus in Homer's 'Iliad,' I can see parallels in Chinese historical romances, in the way the first emperor of the Han dynasty and his chief rival are portrayed.
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I don't mean to be overly sensitive or anything like that, but you just have to take a minute in every day, and just reflect on where you are, and just realise what you've got, because you just never know where the next huge change in your life is going to come from.
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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.
