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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You go to a show, and there's no food at all, so if you're doing shows back to back, you can forget eating. I remember standing up in the bath one day, and there was a mirror in front of me, and I was so thin! I hated it. I never liked being that skinny.
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The soul active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates.
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As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
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I'm their sole parent, and there is nothing more important than being the best father I can be.
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For me, each film, each script is like a little journey in itself, and I'm reinventing the wheel. It's like, 'How do I make this film?' That's part of the pleasure, and that's why I'm not a normal professional director.
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The fundamental difficulty in myothermic observations is the smallness of the changes involved and their rapidity.
