George Porter Quotes
Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me.
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Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.
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My first priority is trying to protect my family.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.
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I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.
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First appearance deceives many.
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I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
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I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting. The more different they are, the bigger the challenge.
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When you know someone you can make a little more fun of them without them getting offended.
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I don't know if you could take a whole 90 minutes and say that was the best game we ever played.
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It's not like I grew up playing pranks on people, and I was not that girl in school.
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Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me.
