Elizabeth Blackburn Quotes
Ageing is so many different things, and cells being able to self-renew is part of the picture but not all of it.
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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It doesn't matter to me if I'm in love with my performance, so I watch all of my performances to understand and learn from them and figure out what's working and what's not. And I see the movies that I'm in in the theater a lot.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
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I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.
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Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
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Early numbers are always wrong.
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I feel good. I think everything went good.
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I know he was definitely beaten by her. I saw it many times. But we had a different way of dealing with her. He'd let her have more and more booze until she passed out.
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I thought it was cool how [ Riccardo Tisci] wanted to blend Africa and Asia because they relate to each other in so many different ways.
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Ageing is so many different things, and cells being able to self-renew is part of the picture but not all of it.
