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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You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.
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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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You're an island no matter what you do. I think it's very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to really know who you are inside, the core person, and follow what is true rather than follow what is hype.
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Now God comes to thee, not as in the dawning of the day, not as in the bud of the spring, but as the sun at noon to illustrate all shadows, as the sheaves in harvest, to fill all penuries, all occasions invite his mercies, and all times are his seasons.
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Does truth prevail more if we are not on speaking terms with those whose view of truth differs from ours?
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Ah, Scotland. I am three-parts Scottish and terribly proud of it, although maybe we should divide it into eighths, because my two-eighths are Danish and English, the Lumley part. But the bulk of the rest of me is Scottish - and Scottish ministers especially.
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I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
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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.
