Alan Colman quote: "Although Singapore has a relatively limited pool of scientists as compared to the U.K., it has maximized those people by bringing them together. It's a vibrant atmosphere and very enjoyable to work. I don't feel under any sort of pressure to move."

Can we make money from this? That remains to be seen.
ALAN COLMAN

Singapore is gaining a lot of credibility as a good place to work. It has actually been easier for m...
ALAN COLMAN

It has undoubtedly harmed the image not just in Singapore, where I directly feel it has impacted our...
ALAN COLMAN

They are a big catch. They are prominent researchers, very successful in the U.S..
ALAN COLMAN

Practice, it is said, makes perfect. But is it ethical to practice? And I absolutely think it is not...
ALAN COLMAN

Praise the bridge that carried you over.
GEORGE COLMAN

When you've got children, it's easy to do that thing of keeping a tally of who woke up earli...
OLIVIA COLMAN

I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never b...
OLIVIA COLMAN

I can see why people keep having babies. We were looking at a school for my youngest this morning, a...
OLIVIA COLMAN

I do sometimes wonder if people think, 'Oh we'll have her because she cries well.' The o...
OLIVIA COLMAN

In general, I'm rubbish in heels. I love them, and I own a lot because it's like being in a ...
OLIVIA COLMAN

I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it sti...
OLIVIA COLMAN

You see thousands of films you forget the minute you come out of the cinema, don't you? Because ...
OLIVIA COLMAN

I don't think you can cry if the script is rubbish. I have to feel it; it's as simple as tha...
OLIVIA COLMAN

I want everyone to know what they deserve in relationships: that they can demand equality and kindne...
OLIVIA COLMAN

Actually, lots of women, when they're pregnant, feel like steel. They feel incredible.
OLIVIA COLMAN

If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smo...
OLIVIA COLMAN

I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for gi...
OLIVIA COLMAN

I've always wanted to play a Marvel baddie. I'm not sure I fit the mold, though. Like a powe...
OLIVIA COLMAN

As a child, I thought, 'Once I am a grown-up, there will be no more fear, no more worries,' ...
OLIVIA COLMAN

My daughter's still so tiny at the moment; she's just a sweet little meaty thing. But of cou...
OLIVIA COLMAN

I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my hu...
OLIVIA COLMAN

If something touches me, I cry. That's it. I'm a bit raw, a bit rubbish, really. Often, a di...
OLIVIA COLMAN

I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It'...
OLIVIA COLMAN

The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just l...
OLIVIA COLMAN

Dementia is such a terrifying thing for all of us, and we are particularly bad at coping with old pe...
OLIVIA COLMAN

I was never one of those surly teenagers who doesn't smile. My lovely godfather said it was alwa...
OLIVIA COLMAN

I am just an actor - all I do is I memorise someone else's words and tart around.
OLIVIA COLMAN

Proper love should be utterly supportive and comfortable, and it feels like a raincoat or a jacket p...
OLIVIA COLMAN

I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.
OLIVIA COLMAN

It's an experience I'd like to add to the chorus, that these blue-collar, macho men, like my...
COLMAN DOMINGO

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.
COLMAN MCCARTHY

From afar, I have cried watching my nation, sore with prejudice, slowly heal itself. I hurt along wi...
COLMAN DOMINGO

It is true that as people, we tend to remember only the positive. With time, the grim details fade a...
COLMAN DOMINGO

My mum was a nurse, and her passion was geriatric care. I used to love listening to the old people&#...
OLIVIA COLMAN

You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and...
OLIVIA COLMAN

If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestl...
OLIVIA COLMAN

Says he, 'I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver'.
GEORGE COLMAN

My only qualifications to be an actor were that I'm daring, and I'm a quick learner. I'v...
COLMAN DOMINGO

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.
COLMAN MCCARTHY

I do believe we should forgive those people who perpetrated 9/11 and ask that they forgive us.
COLMAN MCCARTHY

The failure of love: that's what all laws are really.
COLMAN MCCARTHY

Unless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence, ... Each year, fewer tha...
COLMAN MCCARTHY

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.
COLMAN MCCARTHY

I got my Equity Card from Berkeley Rep when I was 22 years old. I was cast in David Saar's '...
COLMAN DOMINGO

I've always done drama, but I suppose 'Tyrannosaur' was a bit of a watershed moment for ...
OLIVIA COLMAN

When you're doing exactly what you want to do, it's not tiring. You've been planting the...
COLMAN DOMINGO

I think a good dollop of sadness is quite a useful thing in comedy sometimes. I think if everyone...
OLIVIA COLMAN

I used to want to be in 'Downton' because I had never been in a period drama, but then I did...
OLIVIA COLMAN

I feel like a cup of tea with no milk. I just had one. It was disgusting.
PAUL COLMAN

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals
COLMAN MCCARTHY

When taken To be well shaken.
GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER")

My father was an eminent button-maker at Birmingham, . . . but I had a soul above buttons.
GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER")

'Tis a very fine thing to be father-in-law To a very magnificent three-tailed bashaw.
GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER")

All argument will vanish before one touch of nature.
GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER")

Like two single gentlemen rolled into one. - George Colman ("The Younger"),
GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER")

Mynheer Vandunck, though he never was drunk, Sipped brandy and water gayly.
GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER")

Married in haste we may repent at leisure.
GEORGE COLMAN "THE YOUNGER"

Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise.
GEORGE COLMAN "THE YOUNGER"

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
GEORGE COLMAN "THE YOUNGER"

When anger rises, think of the consequences.
GEORGE COLMAN "THE YOUNGER"

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest about thirty years aft...
GEORGE COLMAN "THE YOUNGER"

Mystery magnifies danger, as the fog does the sun.
GEORGE COLMAN "THE YOUNGER"

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
GEORGE COLMAN "THE YOUNGER"

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies, seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our fri...
GEORGE COLMAN "THE YOUNGER"

Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle, and discards her nurse.
GEORGE COLMAN "THE YOUNGER"

On their own merits modest men are dumb.
GEORGE COLMAN "THE YOUNGER"

When the hollow drum has beat to bed And the little fifer hangs his head, When all is mute the...
GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER")

On their own merits modest men are dumb.
GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER")

I asked of my dear friend Orator Prig: "What's the first part of oratory?" He said, "A great wig....
GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER")

Praise the bridge that carried you over.
GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER")

I marched the lobby, twirled my stick, . . . . The girls all cried, "He's quite the kick."
GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER")

But when ill indeed, E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed. - George Colman ("The ...
GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER")

Love and a cottage! Eh, Fanny! Ah, give me indifference and a coach and six!
GEORGE COLMAN, THE YOUNGER

Lord help you! Tell 'em Queen Anne's dead.
GEORGE COLMAN, THE YOUNGER

Mum's the word.
GEORGE COLMAN, THE YOUNGER

But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
GEORGE COLMAN, THE YOUNGER

Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.
GEORGE COLMAN, THE YOUNGER

Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.
GEORGE COLMAN THE YOUNGER

Selling is simply the transfer of inthusiasm.
ALAN

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
ALAN WATTS

I think most people have that crazy uncle they sit at Thanksgiving dinner with: someone they disagre...
ALAN COLMES

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
ALAN PERLIS

Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest po...
ALAN STERN

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
ALAN BENNETT

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
ALAN BENNETT

I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.
ALAN BENNETT

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me ch...
ALAN BENNETT

I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.
ALAN BENNETT

I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't qu...
ALAN BENNETT

I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fall...
ALAN BENNETT

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
ALAN BENNETT

I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that...
ALAN BENNETT

All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
ALAN BENNETT

We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's...
ALAN BENNETT

Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
ALAN BENNETT

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The...
ALAN BENNETT

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
ALAN BENNETT

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
ALAN BENNETT

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception...
ALAN BENNETT

Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETT

Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; o...
ALAN BENNETT

Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.
ALAN BENNETT

If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
ALAN KING

I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard.
ALAN TURING

I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don'...
ALAN TURING

I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature co...
ALAN TURING

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two ...
ALAN TURING

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brai...
ALAN TURING

I want to enjoy not getting recognised while it lasts. But the mask is a symbol of unity. Anyone can...
ALAN WALKER

Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.
ALAN BULLOCK

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
ALAN WATTS

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
ALAN PERLIS

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAY

I'll work overtime to open the doors of opportunity to industry and commerce.
ALAN AUTRY

Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, il...
ALAN MOORE

I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I kn...
ALAN MOORE

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
ALAN WATTS

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
ALAN PATON

You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven...
ALAN GREENSPAN

I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' A...
ALAN BALL

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
ALAN PARKER

I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it pers...
ALAN BALL

Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go u...
ALAN GREENSPAN

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, ...
ALAN WATTS

There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world insid...
ALAN MOORE

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of ea...
ALAN KAY

If we don't re-charge the American Brand, all future challenges - economic, social and political...
ALAN SIEGEL

On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12....
ALAN RICKMAN

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impos...
ALAN WATTS

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
ALAN WATTS

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they...
ALAN WATTS

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is a...
ALAN WATTS

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about th...
ALAN WATTS

I owe my solitude to other people.
ALAN WATTS

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
ALAN WATTS

Saints need sinners.
ALAN WATTS

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
ALAN WATTS

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
ALAN WATTS

No work for love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans fo...
ALAN WATTS

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the s...
ALAN WATTS

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instr...
ALAN WATTS

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
ALAN WATTS

Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in t...
ALAN KEYES

Arsenal paid a lot of money for him a few years ago but he found it difficult to claim a first-team ...
ALAN CURBISHLEY

It was a great night for us and a great achievement. Who knows what will happen in the next round. I...
ALAN CURBISHLEY

There has not really been a lot going on for Stephan, he has not had many saves to make. I want to h...
ALAN CURBISHLEY

There may be players wanting to leave, and obviously I have a surplus in the forward area, so this w...
ALAN CURBISHLEY

I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
ALAN CUMMING

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
ALAN CUMMING

It's a sort of anti-Broadway musical. It's odd, disjointed and spiky.
ALAN CUMMING

Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what...
ALAN CUMMING

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
ALAN CUMMING

It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.
ALAN CUMMING

When Brian went by me, I thought he was some guy that jumped on the course.
ALAN CULPEPPER

In Athens, I was running in long sleeves and pants in the summertime to acclimate as much as I could...
ALAN CULPEPPER

If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which incl...
ALAN LIGHTMAN

At this point, our office is going to prepare to go to trial again, ... We believe the jury will com...
ALAN CURRY

We haven't made a decision yet. I think there's several options open to us and that's something work...
ALAN CURRY

Andrea Yates knew precisely what she was doing, ... She knew that it was wrong.
ALAN CURRY

He has come here to gain experience, and nothing can happen until December anyway. I believe Gary Ne...
ALAN CURBISHLEY

I left some of the boys out completely to have a rest,
ALAN CURBISHLEY

We moved in straight away, and although he was publicly linked with other clubs, we were always conf...
ALAN CURBISHLEY

Danny is a player we have been tracking for some time, but he only became available last week,
ALAN CURBISHLEY

Claus had one year remaining on his contract and made it clear that he didn't wish to renew his deal...
ALAN CURBISHLEY

The player wanted to come to us and we are very pleased to welcome him.
ALAN CURBISHLEY

We don't believe isolated testimony on cross examination by one of our witnesses had such an impact ...
ALAN CURRY

We are hopeful that we can now finally place our complete focus upon going to trial.
ALAN CURRY

The case has already been reversed once, so we want to make sure we proceed correctly and appropriat...
ALAN CURRY

I would anticipate this case is going to have to be retried.
ALAN CURRY

It's just a matter of our blokes lifting their game. They haven't been playing to their usual standa...
ALAN DAVIDSON

We?re pleased with the vitality we're seeing in the UK market. Our company accounted for close to a ...
ALAN CURTIS

One can always hope, but I worry this will be a repeat of that experience. After the 1960 riots, the...
ALAN CURTIS

[Some found Bush's words reassuring. Others worried that they would not resonate far into the future...
ALAN CURTIS

But the major mistake is to take the census report as a one-year phenomenon. This is the fourth stra...
ALAN CURTIS

If anything, the numbers out of the Census Bureau underestimate the problem of poverty in America,
ALAN CURTIS

This is an unusual case, but the state has previously shown that the defendant knew that her conduct...
ALAN CURRY

It is kind-of the same issue, but they have added a couple of different elements to it, a couple of ...
ALAN CURRY

The case was reversed on appeal. She's gotten a new trial. She's gained the relief she's entitled to...
ALAN CURRY

He had a fool proof plan for not getting a job - In the event of an interview wear flip-flops.
ALAN DAVIES

I think a lot of people feel it would be a mistake.
ALAN DAVIDSON

Consumers need to be notified when and what location information is collected,
ALAN DAVIDSON

Consumers won't use systems they don't trust. Location services monitor movement and habits, somethi...
ALAN DAVIDSON

From a group that cares about civil liberties and cares about kids, this is the right answer.
ALAN DAVIDSON

This finding, if it's true, still doesn't change the basic argument we're having about the standards...
ALAN DAVIDSON

They admitted to making a huge mistake and they said they'd pay the money back, ... They showed some...
ALAN DAVIDSON

it was a mixed day for the Internet on Capital Hill.
ALAN DAVIDSON

We ought to build systems that encourage 911 location services but that are not just personal tracki...
ALAN DAVIDSON

I think there are huge land mines with wireless ahead.
ALAN DAVIDSON

It's been a long time coming. Thank God for this day.
ALAN CROTZER

Here I am trying to build a life and I have nothing to build it with. It's wrong, just wrong.
ALAN CROTZER

If you really want the truth, leave no stone unturned.
ALAN CROTZER

There ain't no compensation for what they done to me. But I'm not bitter.
ALAN CROTZER

Especially when it comes to sex offenses, history is a big predictor of the future,
ALAN CROPSEY

When he was in the United States Senate, he was noted as an intellectual powerhouse,
ALAN CROPSEY

Our rights are not given to us by society, ... My view is that our rights come from God. We start ou...
ALAN CROPSEY

He's a very formidable personality when it comes to Washington, D.C.
ALAN CROPSEY

Although Singapore has a relatively limited pool of scientists as compared to the U.K., it has maximized those people by bringing them together. It's a vibrant atmosphere and very enjoyable to work. I don't feel under any sort of pressure to move.

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Alan Colman

Although Singapore has a relatively limited pool of scientists as compared to the U.K., it has maximized those people by bringing them together. It's a vibrant atmosphere and very enjoyable to work. I don't feel under any sort of pressure to move.

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