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"If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far."
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"There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years."
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"I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor."
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"It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it."
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"I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you've ever written."
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"For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy."
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"I've been devoted to Alison Krauss for many, many years."
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"Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden."
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"I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years."
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"Look at me, I'm getting defensive about something that happened so many years ago, somebody said. I'll have to find out who that was and if he's still alive."
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"I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same."
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"I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it."
Purpose
"Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things."
Age
"I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it."
Strength
"I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while."
Talent
"I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21."
Work
"I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people."
Life
"If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk."
Society
"Everybody has to learn for the first time."
Time
"By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks."
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"Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy."
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