Mackenzie Crook Quotes
I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well.
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.
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If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
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I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
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I have a sidekick, Keith Robinson, who's very funny. I've known Keith for over 20 years; he's my best friend.
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I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.
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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
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I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.
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It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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Georg Cantor claimed the essence of mathematics lies in its freedom. But mathematicians do not pick problems from thin air for the pleasure of solving them. To the contrary, a mark of greatness resides in the ability to identify the most interesting problems in the framework of what is already known.
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If it wasn't for the stars, we would not be here.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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To say that I would have done otherwise had I wanted to is simply to say that I would have lived in a different universe had I been in a different universe.
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I'm a huge fan of the first 'Independence Day.' It is amazing. When it came out in 1995, just how explosive and big it was... I loved it.
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I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well.
