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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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My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preacher's Kids. Be afraid.

Afraid Am Dad Dreaded
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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 love to be scared. Not, 'Hey, I think I smell smoke...' scared, but creepy, paranoid, what's-that-out-there-in-the-dark, ghost story scared. It's no surprise that I was the girl who got invited to the slumber parties because I could be counted on to tell a tale to scare the bejesus out of you.

Because Could Counted Creepy
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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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We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?

Accepting Anger As Certain
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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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My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.

Always Champ Dad Down
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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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It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.
Cannot Conduct Extremes Foreign
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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 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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Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

American Free Freedom Idea
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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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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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When God loves you, He places the love of you in the hearts of the people whose love is worth having.

God Love Place Heart
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Sometimes you don’t realize how special something is until you lose it. That’s how I feel about Ramadan every year.

Realise Special Lose Feel
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A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrical event.

Concert Event Theatrical Rendition
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If you don’t love your brother enough to respectfully voice your concerns about him directly to him, then at least have enough respect to not tear him up behind his back.

Love Brother Respect Concern
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No age is good to get married at. You got to be a fool to get married.

Marriage Fool Funny Age
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You're headed for disaster cos you never read the signs Too much love will kill you every time

Time Read Headed Signs
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Prayer is not the only time of day that you should be talking to God.

Prayer Time Day Talk
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A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement.

Amino Acid Mutation Methods
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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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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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Altering a gene in the gene line to produce improved offspring is likely to be very difficult because of the danger of unwanted side effects. It would also raise obvious ethical problems.

Gene Offspring Effect Obvious
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Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.

Biologists Constantly Designed Evolved
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Chance is the only source of true novelty.

Chance Novelty Source Only
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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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Wake up knowing that God is greater than any obstacle you may face today.
Wake God Great Obstacle
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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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If you complain that God is testing you too much, you’re failing the test.

Complain Test Fail God
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God will never disappoint the sincere caller. Even when you think He hasn’t answered you He plans in your favor.

Dissapoint Sincere Call Think
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Sometimes God allows you to taste the bitterness of this world so that you could fully appreciate the sweetness of faith.

God Taste Bitter World
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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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I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn't want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

Ability Deal With Lot
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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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Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to the sound it made while being dropped down a flight of stairs.

Structure Piano Flight Stair
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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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While Occam’s razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology. It is thus very rash to use simplicity and elegance as a guide in biological research.

Physical Dangerous Biology Simplicity
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