Arthur George Gaston (A. G. Gaston) Quotes
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
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Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.
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I noticed recently, in the last few shows I did, that I'm starting to get people – not a large group, but quite a few people – who come to see me because they love Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.
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My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
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Back in England, a girl with thick black hair, dusky skin and big brown eyes will turn heads. It is vice versa in India.
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When I am perfectly clear, what is is what I want.
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I've done a couple of series before, and what I like about TV is, as an actor, you get that chance to practice all the time, and that's really how you grow.
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The English prison system is altogether mediaeval and outworn. In some of its details, the system has improved since they began to send the Suffragettes to Holloway. I may say that we, by our public denunciation of the system, have forced these slight improvements.
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The critical goals of solid internal controls and transparent financial reporting are better achieved by a free and unfettered capital market rather than by burdensome regulation. Enforcement efforts should focus on aggressive prosecution of bad actors under existing anti-fraud laws rather than imposing costly and largely ineffective procedural requirements on all public companies.
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We can't fight and beg from those we fight at the same time.
