Elizabeth Blackburn Quotes

Telomeres are the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes in cells. Chromosomes carry the genetic information. Telomeres are buffers. They are like the tips of shoelaces. If you lose the tips, the ends start fraying.

Elizabeth Blackburn

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'Some day,' I said, 'I will be an author.'

Jennine Capó Crucet

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I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was.

John Badham

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As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad.

John Kricfalusi

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I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, who's a coal miner, and my mother worked in a normal factory.

Aneurin Barnard

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While it is quite reasonable for scientists to be skeptical of new ideas that do not fit within the accepted realm of scientific knowledge, the best science often emerges from situations where results carefully obtained do not fit within the accepted paradigms.

Stanley B. Prusiner

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Audiences make their minds up about people they see on screen, just like they do in real life. That's what fascinates me in film. You see a character and have to think: is this person different to what I assumed he was when I first saw him?

Steven Rodney McQueen

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I love being natural. I never feel more beautiful then after I've been to the beach and my hair's just a crazy mess of salt curls, or when I've just been outside all day hiking.

Troian Bellisario

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I remember starting to read about the Soviet Union when I was eight years old; I think I was reading my father's 'New York Times.'

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

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Working hard as an actor means you're doing what you want to do.

Rupert Penry-Jones

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The best live among us in disguise.

Louis Dudek

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I just love language. I mean, I love it. I love stage directions. Any opportunity to write. I hadn't written in so long, I get very crazy and miserable. I - it's like not seeing my kids: I can't do it for very long.

Joss Whedon

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It's difficult to get away from the shadow of a TV character.

Jason Lee

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