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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

Back Decide Happen Happening
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I am loved by thousands, but I feel like the loneliest man in the world.

Love Loneliest Man World
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The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone.

Anon Ashes Desert Dusty
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Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher in the Rye' did just that, and I still do love it.

Adolescence Any Arrows Book
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We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.

Accepted Attacked Color Expected
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It's so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. It's like the world's weirdest blind date. I know all the students are thinking, 'Who is this tool standing up in front of us?

Auditorium Blind Classroom Date
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I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and cranky. So everybody's glad when I write and stop complaining already.

Complaining Cranky Depressed Everybody
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Sitting in my favorite coffeehouse with a new notebook and a hot cup of java is my idea of Heaven.

Cup Favorite Heaven Hot
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I got married in Florence, Italy. My husband and I were in love but totally broke, so we eloped and got married in Italy, where he was going on a business trip. We had to pull a guy off the street to be our witness. It was incredibly romantic. Florence is still one of my favorite cities in the world.

Broke Business Cities Favorite
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I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

Doing Grew I Write Long
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

Dress Funny Clothes Bow
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My joke is that my father was a minister and my mother was an English teacher, so I'm trained to see the world in terms of symbols, which is hard when you just want to make toast.

Father Hard Joke Just
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A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.

Character Boy Develop Play
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.

Beautiful Great See Spring
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Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

Actions Alone American American People
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Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

Away Budget Cancer Citizen
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I'm a very emotional person, a person of real extremes, and that's often destructive both to myself and others.

Emotional Extremes Destructive Person
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I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.

Film Sword Insist Room
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I always knew I was a star And now, the rest of the world seems to agree with me.
Agree World Star Rest
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I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.

Work Heroe Business Inspire
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I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.

Training Drama School Study
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Can you imagine how terrible it is when you've got everything and you're still desperately lonely? That is awful beyond words.

Imagine Desperately Lonely Beyond
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I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

Miss Home Physical Friend
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Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb.

Disease Danger Excitement Limb
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When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

Dead Musician Worth Substance
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What you must understand is that my voice comes from the energy of the audience. The better they are, the better I get.
Better Voice Audience Energy
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In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.

Hate Write Tragic Person
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When people wear you out, spend time in isolation with God, and your relationship with Him will improve as well as with the people.

People Isolation God Time
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Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy understanding of life itself.
Aspect Molecules Life Sketchy
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Positive thinking isn’t ignoring life’s problems, it’s understanding that God can make a way out for you if you sincerely try.

Positive Think Ignore Problem
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I also suspect that many workers in this field [molecular biology] and related fields have been strongly motivated by the desire, rarely actually expressed, to refute vitalism.

Motivated Expressed Vitalism Refute
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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He (René Thom) seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of negative sign.

Intellectually Strong Biology Lazy
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Sometimes you meet people with very little knowledge, very humble jobs, and in no leadership role but they put you to shame with their good character and you can’t help but wonder if it’s that special connection that they have with God that causes them to tread the earth so lightly.

Knowledge Humble Leadership Character
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Only time and money stand between us and knowing the composition of every gene in the human genome.
Gene Composition Human Genome
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Protein synthesis is a central problem for the whole of biology, and that it is in all probability closely related to gene action.

Protein Biology Gene Probability
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The layman is delighted to learn that after all, in spite of science being so impossibly difficult to understand, Scientists Are Human!

Layman Scientist Human Science
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Don’t question God’s mercy. Just ask for it and you’ll find it.

Question Mercy God Ask
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When you forget that you need God, He puts you in a situation that causes you to call upon Him, and that’s for your own good.

Forget God Need Situation
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Sometimes you wish you never met certain people, then you grow and realize that they were a gift in disguise and contributed to making you the person you are.

Wish People Realise Gift
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Let’s practice what we learn, and then preach what we practice. Don’t jump from learning straight to preaching.

Practice Learn Preach Jump
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With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I've done it.

Drive Bit Talent Move
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For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And of course the opportunity to 'mince about' was an added element that I wanted to take advantage of!

About Actor Added Advantage
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That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time

Able Cousins Dance Dancers
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When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

He Speak Earnest Vibe
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If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.

Check Ego Door Comes
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What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.

What Important Me Was
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The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.

Biology Physics Chemistry Fact
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There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.

Paper Tedious Difficult Form
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What is found in biology is mechanisms, mechanisms built with chemical components and that are often modified by other, later, mechanisms added to the earlier ones.

Mechanism Chemical Modified Biology
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And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.
DNA Proof God Exxstence
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