Elizabeth Blackburn Quotes
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I have to grow with my audience.
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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
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I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried to work outside the studio, but it introduces too many variables that I can't control. I'm really quite narrow, you know.
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As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music.
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I'll get in the face of anyone I think is wrong.
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I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.
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I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.
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We've all made mistakes that are similar in just trying to get by or make some money or feel good about ourselves.
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Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
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I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.
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One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.
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In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Becoming a mother has been the best experience of my life, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course repay you at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now if you kindly will.
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Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.
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I am in total ecstasy with where my life is now.
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In about 1975-76, I lived with a woman in a little hut with some fruit trees, and I had some of the most extraordinary, happy times of my life. Apart from the horrendous Queensland police, who were corrupt and venal, it really was like living in paradise.
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My concern is not for the judicial system, but for the reality that the shark fin mafia of Costa Rica has a price on my head, and a Costa Rican prison would provide an excellent opportunity for someone to exercise this lethal contract against me.
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As crime writers, we put these characters, year after year, book after book, through the most horrendous trauma, dealing with grief and death and loss and violence. We can't pretend that these things don't affect these characters; they have to. If they don't, then you're essentially writing cartoons.
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I like to draw my storyboards myself.
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I'm a very positive person. I get excited easily, and I like to jump around.
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We think there are lifestyle factors that boost telomerase naturally.
