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I think that if you get too close to the character, if you do too much historical research, you may find yourself defending your view of a character against the author's view, and I think that's terribly dangerous. Tim Curry

I'm good at my own company. Tim Curry

Good Own My Own Company

Winning a Nobel Prize isn't about being clever at all. It's about making... at least in physiology or medicine, it's about making discoveries, and you don't have to be clever to make a discovery, I don't think; it just comes up and punches you on the nose. Tim Hunt

Modern motor vehicles are safer and more reliable than they have ever been - yet more than 1 million people are killed in car accidents around the world each year, and more than 50 million are injured. Why? Largely because one perilous element in the mechanics of driving remains unperfected by progress: the human being. Tom Chatfield

People Human Being World Progress Car Year Accidents Reliable More Remains Driving Vehicles Perilous Safer Because Around Been Motor Than Modern Human Being Mechanics Each Element Injured Largely Why Ever Each Year Million Million People

American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957. Tom Holt

Time Day Tea Back UK Sunny Drink Perfect Never Had Hot Because Caught Really Last Last Time

I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized. Tom Hooper

People Think Throat Thumb Print Goes Childhood Many Trauma

My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more. Tom Hooper

World Old Wife Nice Defensive Kids More Crouch Had He Put Know Him Said His Years Five Shock Same Any Childhood Afraid Against Really Helpful Dad Thing Things Needed

The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths. Tom Hooper

You Touching More End Up Truths Bigger Specific Universal

I don't think I'll ever be able to grow a beard. Tom Odell

Beard Think Able Grow Ever

There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity. Tony Wilson

Local Powerful Celebrity Quite Famous Homegrown

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on. Van Morrison

You Jazz Something Point Go Then

I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across. Van Morrison

Seem Singer Rock Get Want Not Interested Interested Across

Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed? Victoria Wood

Work Problem Sexual Harassment

I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on. Victoria Wood

Life Degree My Life Spend Diving Know Does Got Intellectuals Mean Certificate Brick Evenings Why Rubber

I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished. Vidal Sassoon

Myself Sit About Feel Sort Proud Accomplished Might Chair Things

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences. Vince Cable

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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. Virginia Woolf

Truth Women Truth Is Completeness Like Anonymity Often

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. Virginia Woolf

Alone Frame Rigid Habit Human Skeleton

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind. Virginia Woolf

Mind Poet Gives Prose Takes His Essence Us Body Mold

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women? Virginia Woolf

Women Men More Than Interesting Much Why

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say. Virginia Woolf

Truth You Man Background Say Perceive Cat Instantly Look Piece Fish Up Get Behold Forgotten Sandy

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