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Paul Nurse Quotes

I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.

Paul Nurse

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: british
Birth: January 25, 1949

Topics

Good Science Effort Problem Pursuit

I never pretended to be a great actor.

Joel McCrea

Great Actor Never Pretended

I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn't rebel in the traditional sense.

Anna Paquin

Family Good Job Creative Think You

It's counterproductive. The problem with sentimentality is that it kills the emotion.

Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Problem Emotion Sentimentality

Before working with Deaf West, I had never met a deaf person, and now I can't imagine life without ASL.

Michael Arden

Life Person Now Deaf Never Without

But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those two worlds.

Robert Duvall

Live Character Challenge Me Action

I am very willing to admit that I have some poetical abilities, and as few - if any - writers, either moral or political, are intimately acquainted with the classes of mankind among whom I have chiefly mingled, I may have seen men and manners in a different phasis from what is common, which may assist originality of thought.

Robert Burns

Men I Am Thought Political Manners

We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.

Robyn Hitchcock

Honor Nobody Build Worship Need

Half of this business is politics. As real estate developers, it's our job to go in there and get beat up.

Ross Perot, Jr.

Business Politics Job Real Estate Go

As is now painfully obvious from my Twitter ban, boycotts tend to make the shunned more popular.

Milo Yiannopoulos

Now More Obvious Make Twitter Ban

One of the things you realize when you have a health crisis in your immediate family is that life does not stop so that you can go through that experience.

Jason Katims

Life Family Health Experience You

Education is among the most important problems we face because it's the ultimate 'gateway' problem. That is, it drives virtually every global problem that we face as a species. But there's a flip-side: if we can fix education, then we'll dramatically improve the other problems, too.

Jose Ferreira

Education Problems Face Problem Fix

As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small part. When you're playing the lead part, you don't have time to think about the whole of it, so you just have to steam on and get on with it.

Colin Baker

Time Focus Small Think Attention