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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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"I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best."
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"I'm currently trying to direct my own material."
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"They asked me why I was wearing heels, and I said, I'm trying to hide my ass. They gave me a prosthetic behind."
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"I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record."
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"I'd rather deal with Tipper than Bush. He's trying to kill everybody in jail."
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"I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it."
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"Oh, who am I trying to kid? It's a madhouse. The minute those cameras go off, things just explode, everyone is just at each other in one way or another, in closets or cat fights here and there. It's nuts. You know, I can't be a part of it."
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"I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately."
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"I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing."
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"I'm trying to remain unfamous."
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"At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys."
Age
"Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life."
Health
"I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me."
Time
"Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science."
Science
"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."
Science
"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."
Trying
"It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways."
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"This time at Birmingham turned me into a general biologist, and ever since then I have always tried to take a biological approach to any research project that I have undertaken."
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"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."
Mother
"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."
Time
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