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Lewis Thomas Quotes

We carry stores of DNA in our nuclei that may have come in, at one time or another, from the fusion of ancestral cells and the linking of ancestral organisms in symbiosis. Our genomes are catalogues of instructions from all kinds of sources in nature, filed for all kinds of contingencies.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 25, 1913 - December 3, 1993

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Nature Time DNA Carry Cells May

To not be self-conscious of your appearance is huge, and something that I desperately hope to carry into film at some point in my useless life - to not be thinking, 'My ear looks weird from this angle, why is the camera over there?'

Life Hope Thinking Weird Camera Why

I work out seven days a week, and I love every minute of it. It really is a way just to get away. I weight train and do cardio and stay active as much as possible every day; I have to just to clear my head. I love to get into the gym.

Work Love Day Week Every Day Gym

My preference is 3,000, maybe 5,000-seat venues.

Preference Maybe Venues

In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!

Michelangelo Antonioni

Head Used Instinctively

But I have returned to one hundred percent playing this year. I am fully back to playing full time.

Miroslav Vitous

Time I Am Year Back Playing Percent

You can talk to someone relatively famous, and they say, 'What do you do? What do you do for a job?' and I say, 'I make documentaries for the BBC,' and you see their eyes just glaze over.

Eyes Job Famous Someone You Say

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people's throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

People Believe Think Trying Down

You want the audience to be in the character's shoes. The more deeply into the character's shoes the audience is, the more they're going to care about what's going on.

Character Shoes Care You Want More

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

Nature Art Mind Spirit Contemplation

I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or three years, at the end I have a book.

Work Morning Day Book End Every Day

There is no attitude required. The hat brings the attitude. And when people try on a hat they like, it is a bit of fun. It makes them laugh. You don't laugh when you put on a pair of shoes, but you do with a hat.

Attitude Shoes Fun Hat People Laugh

Let the pitcher move first, then, as he draws his arm back, you draw the bat back and you are ready.

You Back Ready First Move Bat

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