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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When I'm in show mode, I can't even think about putting on makeup; I just have to be centered.
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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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Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.
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I used to be something of an obsessive when it came to research. When I first began writing the Thorne novels, I would drive to a set of traffic lights in the early hours of the morning to make sure you could turn left. I thought it was important to get even the most trivial details right.
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The closing period of the fifteenth century witnessed the slow but sure increase of the churches of the Brethren. Although far from being unmolested, they yet enjoyed comparative rest. At the commencement of the sixteenth century their churches numbered two hundred in Bohemia and Moravia.
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I think that vampires are sexy. The idea of them being untouchable has been really exciting for people.
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They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.
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The fundamental difficulty in myothermic observations is the smallness of the changes involved and their rapidity.
