William Bateson Quotes
When I look at a dividing cell I feel as an astronomer might do if he beheld the formation of a double star: that an original act of creation is taking place before me.
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I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
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There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
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When discs form around stars, there is interaction of angular momentum between disc, planets and parent star, and this interaction affects the rotation of the parent star, and that will affect the lithium abundance.
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I'd love to be a pop star - at heart.
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It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
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Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.
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If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
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I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.
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The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.
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I did think that acting would be much more like being a pop star. Now I'm here, I can't think of anything more different.
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I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, 'Git 'r done!'
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Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it's worth it. He's the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just as difficult before he was an international star as he was afterwards.
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Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
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I did not want to get involved with a rock star. No way. It is not a sane thing to do.
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When Californians see something we truly believe in, we say so and act accordingly - without evasiveness or equivocation.
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I didn't want to be treated like a 'star.' I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
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So you know, my plan was that I was going to make records, and be a rock star. And that's really what I wanted to do. And I sang from the time I was very young.
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Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.
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You've got to write for your audience.
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After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.
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There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.
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When I look at a dividing cell I feel as an astronomer might do if he beheld the formation of a double star: that an original act of creation is taking place before me.
