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Paul Nurse

"My main efforts focussed on trying to identify the rate controlling steps during the cell cycle. Crucial for this analysis were wee mutants that were advanced prematurely through the cell cycle and so divided at a reduced cell size."

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"My main efforts focussed on trying to identify the rate controlling steps during the cell cycle. Crucial for this analysis were wee mutants that were advanced prematurely through the cell cycle and so divided at a reduced cell size."

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Donna Grant

"One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools."

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Donna Grant

"I'm just trying to do things that are interesting for me."

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Donna Grant

"You know, I like playing around with my voice and trying all different types of kooky voices."

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Donna Grant

"I know that I've overfed myself trying to prop myself up because I'm exhausted."

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Donna Grant

"One of the things that I have learned since trying to bring in an interesting story in under 28 pages is that we already agree on great chunks of typical superhero stories."

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Donna Grant

"I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing."

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Donna Grant

"On The Others, very atmospheric and probably mysterious is how I would say it felt to be on the set. It felt just a little uneasy, the atmosphere that we were trying to capture."

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Donna Grant

"Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere."

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Donna Grant

"It's impossible to always get across what I'm trying to say, but, if I just stay honest, then I'm not going to look back on any of these interviews and wonder what I was trying to do or be."

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Donna Grant

"All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room."

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Paul Nurse
"I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science."

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Paul Nurse
"It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways."

Knowledge

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Paul Nurse
"This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal."

Thought

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Paul Nurse
"At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys."

Age

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Paul Nurse
"A key issue in developmental biology at that time was the problem of how cells underwent differentiation, with most workers concentrating on explanations in terms of changes in enzyme and gene regulation."

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Paul Nurse
"I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity."

Science

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Paul Nurse
"During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky."

Attention

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Paul Nurse
"I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a strong tradition in bacterial molecular genetics and an excellent reputation in biology."

Work

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Paul Nurse
"Therefore, I reasoned that study of the cell cycle responsible for the reproduction of cells was important and might even be illuminating about the nature of life."

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Paul Nurse
"My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur."

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