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My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

Christopher Good Graham Graham Greene
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The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.

About Believe Ever Father
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To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologise unreservedly.

Africa Continent Drawn Genetically
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.

Dreamed Genome Lifetime My Own
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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

Always Been Breakthrough Exciting
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I am thrilled to see my genome.

Am Genome I Am See
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I would only once have the opportunity to let my scientific career encompass a path from the double helix to the three billion steps of the human genome.

Billion Career Double Encompass
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My wife and I have a schizophrenic son. We didn't want to accept this for 30 years, so we put him under great pressure when we shouldn't have. He just wanted to be looked after, and we didn't respect that. We tried to make him independent.

Accept After Great He
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I have an odd theory on happiness, and it bothers people. My general theory is that happiness is a reward for an animal doing what it should be doing. So if a horse runs, it feels happy. Or if you are too thin, you can't be happy, because evolution wants you to be tense and anxious, trying to wake up in the morning looking for food.

Animal Anxious Be Happy Because
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I want to see cancer cured in my lifetime. It might be.
Cancer Cured Lifetime Might
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I started doing science when I was effectively 20, a graduate student of Salvador Luria at Indiana University. And that was - you know, it took me about two years, you know, being a graduate student with Luria deciding I wanted to find the structure of DNA; that is, DNA was going to be my objective.

About Being Deciding DNA
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My whole life has been basically trying to find intelligent students or, you know, highly motivated students and giving them an opportunity to do good science.

Basically Been Find Giving
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I don't want 100 different cures of cancer. I want, you know, give me five. So if you had, you know, five medicines, you could do away with 90 percent of cancer. That's sort of my objective. I think we're going to do it.

Away Cancer Could Cures
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.

DNA Gold Only Regarded
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The fact that my grown kids like to hang out with me, I mean, it just - I don't think it really can get any better than that, I don't think.

Any Better Fact Get
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My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.
After Artist Exciting Label
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And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.

Destroy Going Life Like
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I love mixing up my genres.

Genres ILove Love Mixing
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It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.

About Dangerous Get How
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When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.

Came Coming Dad Died
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When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.

Actor Bad Braces Child
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Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.

Because Dad Him MyOwn
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I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do.

Carve Find Going MyOwn
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I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.

Acting After Educating English
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No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.

Another Back Children Collage
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Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them.

About Family Get Immediate
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When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents.

Embarrass Kid Little LittleKid
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Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip.

Been Else Everyone EveryoneElse
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I used to read a lot about myself and the projects I was doing. When I was only acting, I wouldn't read any reviews because I didn't find them to be very helpful.

About Acting Any Because
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Because acting was my only professional outlet, I put a ton of pressure on the roles that I did. I overstepped my bounds, I tried to control things that were out of my purview as an actor and in some cases even tried to direct my scenes because I felt I knew how they should run rather than trust the director.

Acting Actor Because Bounds
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I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.
Cast I Think Like Self
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My job is what I love. I don't need an escape from it.

Escape I Love Job Love
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When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.

Actor After Author Career
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My favorite role ever was Alien in 'Spring Breakers'.

Alien Ever Favorite Role
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I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.

Art Art World Because Bring
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I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears.

Am Best Clothing Cold
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For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.

About Bore Funny Incidents
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I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.

Against Carefully Cats Cheek
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I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me.

About Because Holidays I Love
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They can't find my house now because I keep it very quiet where I live.
Because Find House Keep
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My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

Ambition Full Mouth My Soul
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I don't play chess with my life, ya' know.
Chess Know Life MyLife
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My days, if they start in the morning with a cuddle from my son, are just so much more glorious than they were prior to that.

Days Glorious Just More
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My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him to watch.

Any Charlie Children Daddy
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I believe in singing for my supper. I'll never accept a grant because what I do should be able to be founded purely on free enterprise.

Able Accept Because Believe
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I'm a virtuoso in my job in that there's not an actor I can't go into a scene with and be absolutely confident that, whatever is required of my character, I can do it.

Absolutely Actor Character Confident
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I've loved Danielle Spencer since 1989 - that's never going to change - and that's one of those things where I stare at her and go, 'How did it fail?' I still can't work it out, because my feelings for her have never changed.

Because Change Changed Did
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When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.

Die Dublin Heart Will
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I've been voted one of Australia's 50 national treasures. I've even had my face on an Australian stamp - the only non-Australian to do so, apart from the Queen, of course.

Apart Australia Australian Been
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My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
Cold Her Mind Polished
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