David Lee Quotes

Modern low temperature physics began with the liquefaction of helium by Kamerlingh Onnes and the discovery of superconductivity at the University of Leiden in the early part of the 20th century.

David Lee

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Both of my grandfathers fought in the Second World War, and my great-grandfather died at the Somme in the First World War. I never truly believed that the War just finished and everyone was happy-clappy, brought out the bunting, and felt everything was okay again. That's definitely not my impression of the fall-out of war.

Andrea Riseborough

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I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor.

Melissa Leo

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I like to have my privacy. I don't like people knowing what I do in my free time. I am also a very shy person, but I understand that people want to know more.

Ana Ivanovic

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I remember hearing, back in the day, so-and-so got a deal, and bands are spending the money. Some of them live in the old days, where money is coming in and budgets are endless, but bands have to pay that back. Some bands just don't realize that.

Sonny Sandoval

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I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.

Mika

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It was more freeing, mainly because he's so free anyway. He just is in his performance. So to mimic someone doing a free performance, well, that's pretty freeing within itself.

Michael Welch

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I love Cameron Crowe's 'Say Anything' and 'Almost Famous.' I think those are really great coming-of-age movies.

Jon Watts

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There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.

Douglas Hurd

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Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.

Bruce Campbell

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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Thomas Carlyle

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Don't be afraid to mix things up by pairing a military-style jacket with a velvet skirt, vintage with modern, off-the-rack with couture, formal with casual.

Nina Garcia

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I used to be something of an obsessive when it came to research. When I first began writing the Thorne novels, I would drive to a set of traffic lights in the early hours of the morning to make sure you could turn left. I thought it was important to get even the most trivial details right.

Mark Billingham

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