Archibald Hill Quotes
The fundamental difficulty in myothermic observations is the smallness of the changes involved and their rapidity.
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Somebody like Bowie was so interesting because when you got him off stage, he was like a businessman. But on stage, he was just dazzling. It was like watching butterflies grow.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
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Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Computing technology started out as number-crunching.
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My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.
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My father died in France, and my sisters and I went over with my mum to bring back his body. I remember going to the funeral parlour in France and being given a laminated menu of coffins, and thinking, surely there is an ice cream at the back of here!
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All of my characters are less than perfect.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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Revolutionaries are not infallible.
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So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.
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When I do outdoor scenes, I tend to find a quiet space where I can sit and carve a walking stick that can turn out to be interesting for me.
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Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that.
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I like to play people who are deeply flawed, and I want to find the good nature in them. I even try to be kind to myself when I've made big mistakes.
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Sometimes friends move apart from each other for whatever reason.
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I really hate being recognised. I'm quite a shy person, and I'm not very good at talking to strangers. So when people come up to me in the street, I just find it quite awkward. I don't really know what to say to them.
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When you're in the game, you're still in the moment.
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Politics makes strange bedfellows.
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I've patterned myself after my musical heroes.
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We may have different backgrounds, but we believe in the same dream that says this is a country where anything's possible. No matter who you are. No matter where you come from.
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I have never said that there is no need for a guru. All depends on what you call guru. He need not be in a human form.
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When I was moving to New York in 1994, I saw an ad in the paper that said, 'Do You Measure Up To Be A Muppet?' I answered the ad and soon after met John Henson, who brought me in to understudy him for a real version of the computer generated Coca-Cola Polar Bear.
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The fundamental difficulty in myothermic observations is the smallness of the changes involved and their rapidity.
