Aubrey de Grey Quotes
The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get led astray into dead ends and to misunderstand your data.
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I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
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It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.
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The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
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This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer.
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I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
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You can't make a rule about it. The minute you make a rule, it's like putting your wedding pictures in 'In Style' magazine - you're divorced.
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When I'm on the red carpet, most people say, 'Who the hell is that?' It's downright embarrassing.
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I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.
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When writers stop to sharpen pencils or get up and make coffee to procrastinate, they still stay in their heads with their characters. But when you zip over to read email or check your Facebook page, you get zapped out of the fictive dream. It's brutal on my writing.
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And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.
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I have always been clear that cinema is not my priority and that my family is.
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In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
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I want to do theatre and film and direct my own things and develop.
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I also want to get out there in the world and do some acting and fashion and modeling.
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America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
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I worked my way through the education system and was treated as though I had value.
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Acting wasn't even in my world at all. My oldest sister worked at 'Glamour' magazine and said I should model, but I had no interest.
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My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.
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For a long time, I've had a recurring dream - I dream I don't have to write any more, that I'm free. I'm not free, alas; I'm still clearing the same terrain, with the impression that it's never finished.
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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.
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Service is a deceptively profound way to prove not only what you can do for the world, but what you can tell the world to expect from you and your ambitions.
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Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.
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The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get led astray into dead ends and to misunderstand your data.
