Elizabeth Blackburn Quotes
I'm pretty good about getting some exercise every day - well, most days. The secret for me was to put the elliptical in front of the TV.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.
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It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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The hair department on 'Game of Thrones' is incredible.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
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When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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It's up to the audience. It always has been.
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I travel regularly and have learnt to be very methodical as far as packing is concerned. For example, I always check the weather in advance of where I'm going to ensure that I've packed the right clothes.
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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
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Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.
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It's so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.
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As a Democrat, it's easy for me to talk about immigration. For my Republican friends, they could get criticized from the Right in their party.
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As much as we complain about it, though, there's part of us that is drawn to a hurried life. It makes us feel important. It keeps the adrenaline pumping. It means I don't have to look too closely at my heart or life. It keeps us from feeling our loneliness.
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Golf is fluid. It's always changing. It's always evolving. First of all, you never master it.
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What good is power if there's no connection point? My entire style's built around that actual basis.
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I'm pretty good about getting some exercise every day - well, most days. The secret for me was to put the elliptical in front of the TV.
