Andy Serkis Quotes
Working with and collaborating with and for Peter Jackson was an incredible experience because he is such a phenomenal filmmaker.
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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The stratosphere is a hostile place.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
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A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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I'm very happy alone.
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Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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I do love the way the brain looks. I love the way it's shaped.
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When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing.
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Humans are distinguished from other species by a massive brain that enables us to imagine a future and influence it by what we do in the present. By using experience, knowledge and insight, our ancestors recognized they could anticipate dangers and opportunities and take steps to exploit advantages and avoid hazards.
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That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Working with and collaborating with and for Peter Jackson was an incredible experience because he is such a phenomenal filmmaker.
