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Ballet is something for which you need so much control and composure. And there's an element to acting that is the complete opposite. You have to be able to completely let go and reveal everything about yourself. It's about being very vulnerable.
Sonoya Mizuno
You
Yourself
Control
Complete
Everything
Complete Opposite
Able
Composure
About
Something
Vulnerable
Reveal
Ballet
Go
Opposite
Very
Being
Which
Much
Acting
Element
Let Go
Need
I used to be a dancer.
Sonoya Mizuno
Dancer
Used
I love Christy Turlington in the '80s and '90s. Classic.
Sonoya Mizuno
Love
Christy
Classic
I grew up in Somerset in southwest England.
Sonoya Mizuno
Up
Southwest
Grew
England
If I could throw a dinner party for anyone, I'd invite Lena Dunham, Dave Chappelle, and Gena Rowlands.
Sonoya Mizuno
Dinner
Party
Dinner Party
Dave
Could
Throw
Invite
Anyone
Lena Dunham
If I Could
When I was, like, 10, I cooked a three-course meal for my family.
Sonoya Mizuno
Family
Meal
Like
Cooked
It's fun to channel a different mood and character through makeup.
Sonoya Mizuno
Character
Channel
Mood
Through
Makeup
Different
Fun
I drink a glass of water and half a lemon as soon as I wake up. I heard that it's supposed to balance your body's pH. Not sure if that's true, but to be honest, it really helps with bloating.
Sonoya Mizuno
Balance
Water
Wake Up
Half
To Be Honest
Drink
Glass
True
Soon
Supposed
Sure
Heard
Wake
Up
Lemon
Really
Body
Your
Helps
Honest
I'm one of six and would be lost without my siblings. We're really close. They always understand what I'm going through.
Sonoya Mizuno
Lost
Would
Would-Be
Through
Without
Understand
Always
Close
Going
Six
Really
Sibling
'Ex Machina' was the first film I'd auditioned for. I didn't have an agent.
Sonoya Mizuno
First
Agent
Film
My dad is Japanese; he was an art director there. My mom is half-English, half-Argentinian. They met in Japan in the '70s. Her parents were diplomats posted there.
Sonoya Mizuno
Art
Mom
Director
Parents
Met
Posted
Diplomats
He
Were
Japan
Japanese
Dad
Her
A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's.
Stan Sakai
Death
Own
Else
Be Prepared
Someone
Always
His
Samurai
Whether
Should
Prepared
There's a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called 'funny animal scrolls' were the first narratives in Japanese history, and the heroes of many folk tales have animals as their companions.
Stan Sakai
Funny
History
Animal
Heroes
Long
Animals
First
Folk
Long History
Tales
Narratives
Were
So-Called
Literature
Japanese
Companions
Many
I make my own limits which are drawn according to my own taste.
Stan Sakai
Own
Drawn
My Own
Make
Limits
According
Taste
Which
A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' movies.
Stan Sakai
Folklore
Inspired
Kurosawa
Lot
Done
Stories
Literature
Movies
Japanese
Based
Plays
I commuted to the prestigious Hibiya High School from my uncle's home in Tokyo. During the high school years, I developed an interest in chemistry, so upon graduation, I chose to take an entrance examination for the Department of Chemistry of the University of Kyoto, the old capital of Japan.
Susumu Tonegawa
Home
School
Old
Uncle
Chemistry
Prestigious
High
High School
Examination
Entrance
Take
Developed
School Years
Years
Department
Graduation
Interest
Japan
Capital
Tokyo
Chose
University
Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.
Susumu Tonegawa
Creative
Memory
Creative Process
Recorder
Like
Tape
Tape Recorder
Process
Recalling
Playing
Immunologists agreed that an individual vertebrate synthesizes many millions of structurally different forms of antibody molecules even before it encounters an antigen.
Susumu Tonegawa
Before
Individual
Encounters
Different
Forms
Molecules
Many
Agreed
Even
Millions
It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.
Susumu Tonegawa
Matter
Chemistry
Research
Find
Neuroscience
Just
Whether
Interesting
I became fascinated by the then-blossoming science of molecular biology when, in my senior year, I happened to read the papers by Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod on the operon theory.
Susumu Tonegawa
Science
Year
Biology
Papers
Read
Became
Jacob
Jacques
Senior
Senior Year
Happened
Molecular
Theory
Fascinated
In the early Seventies, the technology for purifying a specific eukaryotic mRNA was just becoming available.
Susumu Tonegawa
Technology
Seventies
Purifying
Becoming
Just
Available
Specific
Early
At the suggestion of Professor Itaru Watanabe, and with his help, I left Japan at the age of twenty-three to pursue graduate study at the University of California at San Diego.
Susumu Tonegawa
Age
Pursue
Study
California
His
Left
Diego
Graduate
San
San Diego
Japan
Help
Professor
Suggestion
University
University Of California
I see myself as a scientist who is interested in what's going on inside of us.
Susumu Tonegawa
Myself
Inside
See
Scientist
Going
Interested
Us
Who
The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.
Susumu Tonegawa
Complicated
Research
Because
Brain
Hugely
Requires
We found out that, contrary to what many people thought, in the immune system, genes can change during the life cycle of the individual.
Susumu Tonegawa
Life
Change
People
Thought
System
Out
Immune
Individual
Genes
Contrary
Cycle
Many
Found
Even under normal conditions, how we can distinguish various events, various experiences, and be able to reproduce it later is, of course, a very interesting question and, I think, one that we face in day to day life.
Susumu Tonegawa
Life
Day
Events
Face
Think
Later
Distinguish
Able
Various
Day-To-Day
Course
How
Normal
Question
Conditions
Very
Experiences
Reproduce
Interesting
Even
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