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We've created an impression that life is risk-free, and it's not.
ALASTAIR WOOD We try to teach them how to make a presentation so that it's valuable to people, so they deliver a m...
ALASTAIR WOOD I thought my Beatles LPs sounded pretty good on a record player, but that was before I had heard a C...
ALASTAIR WOOD I think we need to think beyond the issue of absolute risk.
ALASTAIR WOOD I see my job as being to facilitate the life of clinical researchers so that they can be more produc...
ALASTAIR WOOD Even then, Vanderbilt was the premiere place for clinical pharmacology.
ALASTAIR WOOD A generation of arrogance. We didn't trust anyone over 30. We believed we could fix all the prejudic...
ALASTAIR WOOD There's no evidence they are a good value,
ALASTAIR WOOD It seems improbable to me that ... politics hasn't trumped science here, which is a tragedy,
ALASTAIR WOOD We've created an impression that life is risk-free, and it's not.
ALASTAIR WOOD

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL It's such an in-your-face country. Probably the best individual moment was getting to Cape Town, get...
ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS The first year I found really quite lonely and quite hard. It was awful. I was in this horrible hote...
ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS I didn't want to get a job. I wanted to see all these places and all that obvious stuff, but mostly ...
ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS I was at university and it was pretty easy, trundling along towards getting a job after that, I just...
ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS The suspension didn't come at a good time for me because I'd just holed another big putt and then I ...
ALASTAIR FORSYTH I was a bit nervous at the start and no doubt I will be tomorrow because there are good players brea...
ALASTAIR FORSYTH It was not a good time for me to stop because I just birdied 11 and 13, but I more than made up for ...
ALASTAIR FORSYTH I was pretty nervous at the start but handled it well. Tomorrow (Sunday) will be a tough day, though...
ALASTAIR FORSYTH The (new structure) will allow us to create a faster and stronger multidisciplinary team, which can ...
ALASTAIR CURTIS The Nokia 8800 is as much an object of art and desire, as it is an advanced piece of technology.
ALASTAIR CURTIS The Nokia 8800 has clearly found an audience with individuals who appreciate quality materials and w...
ALASTAIR CURTIS For many consumers, the mobile phone has truly become an extension of their personal style. Every de...
ALASTAIR CURTIS Kevin took the pressure off me, I just played my own game and watched from the other end.
ALASTAIR COOK Wicket has not spun as we thought it would. But the signs are there (that it will turn tomorrow). If...
ALASTAIR COOK I enjoyed the great experience of playing against India on its own ground, with the fans cheering al...
ALASTAIR COOK Sometimes opportunities come and you've got to try and take it.
ALASTAIR COOK David told me I was going as cover for Vaughan and to enjoy it,
ALASTAIR COOK It's unfortunate for Vaughan to be injured but a great opportunity for me and I will make the most o...
ALASTAIR COOK I'm very excited about it and can't wait to get together with the rest of the squad.
ALASTAIR COOK He has been fantastic. It is great, he every now and then takes you aside and gives you little bits ...
ALASTAIR COOK Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be heading to Pakistan,
ALASTAIR COOK It was a great feeling to see that ball go through for four, it was unbelievable. It might be a clic...
ALASTAIR COOK I'm not sure what exactly the medical people have got planned for him, but I'd imagine he'd play a h...
ALASTAIR CLARKSON Certainly the stats so far suggest Carlton aren't going as long as what they did previously. We need...
ALASTAIR CLARKSON He's got belief in himself and we've got belief in him, so we move forward and he's playing and he's...
ALASTAIR CLARKSON It will depend on what the supply is like. There are so many variables.
ALASTAIR CLARKSON Their work over the whole game was great, but that third quarter was the difference between the two ...
ALASTAIR CLARKSON He hurt his shoulder about six weeks ago and he hasn't played any matches since then, so we thought ...
ALASTAIR CLARKSON

He has said he is going to stay for a full term and I think it is absolutely right that he does that...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

The EU is Russia's largest trading partner, and we are increasingly interdependent. It is on our int...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

If it's a fundamental principle, the length of the grass doesn't matter.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

When your lordships carefully and critically examine the evidence, they will be driven by that to co...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

It is going to need a lot of continuing work talking to the parties before we can get to the stage o...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

He found it hilarious that some of the press - the more one-eyed of the NZ media - were blaming me f...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

A huge character, Gareth would bring a very different, perhaps more warlike approach,
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

time to move on and do other things.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

The reality is, there is no point denying this, that Tony has taken a big political hit as a result ...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

We don?t do God, I am sorry.' - when asked by an American reporter about Tony Blair?s religious view...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football f...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to ...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen -...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL We've had science fiction novels where China is dominant; we've had novels where India is do...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL I don't know." That was typical Sajaki; like all the genuinely clever people Sylveste had met he kne...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted ...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it w...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some p...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS Can we drop the ‘artificial intelligence’? It’s a bit like me calling you a meat-based process...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS may have killed the cat; more likely
the cat was just unlucky, or else curious
to see what d...
ALASTAIR REID Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is; and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, ...
ALASTAIR REID We may see prices coming off. We're seeing less demand for gold in jewelry.
ALASTAIR MCINTYRE We're having a bit of consolidation as the dollar strengthens a bit. But there's no change in the tr...
ALASTAIR MCINTYRE Anytime we've got above $900, the real demand for platinum in terms of discretionary buying has, if ...
ALASTAIR MCINTYRE The takeover vehicles being created tend to be high risk because they are exposed to a lot of debt. ...
ALASTAIR GUNN Associated British Ports has got an asset base in the ports, a security of income and a consistency ...
ALASTAIR GUNN Freedom is when the people can speak, democracy is when the government listens.
ALASTAIR FARRUGIA In Palestinian eyes we can no longer be considered an honest broker.
ALASTAIR CROOKE As soon as the defendant found out the story was untrue _ it had been picked up from another newspap...
ALASTAIR BRETT South Korea and India are key markets for diesel growth in Asia, and the market in China is continuo...
ALASTAIR BEDWELL As a proven, cost-effective and 'off-the-shelf' solution, diesel has a head start over other emergin...
ALASTAIR BEDWELL Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.' Floyd flashed him a smile. 'It won't l...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS Furious activity is no substitute for analytical thought.
ALASTAIR PILKINGTON When you're writing stuff that's already clotted with neologisms and trying to get across fa...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

There is going to have to be another leader in place when the next election comes and you would have...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

He included plenty of references of specific points of anxiety relating to the training and the day ...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

That is just something that he is prepared to take because he thinks the benefits to the country out...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

For the entire period I worked for Tony Blair, almost a decade, I did not use a computer. This was n...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL I'm not a morning person: I can't function until I've had a coffee - or several.
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS And what cats have to tell
on each return from hell
is this: that dying is what the living...
ALASTAIR REID It has been raining here for ten years.I keep an accurate record of time and can state this with no ...
ALASTAIR BRUCE He had an outstanding game with two fifties and four wickets to round off a week in which he became ...
ALASTAIR COOK He is a fantastic captain to have and we all have just been following him.
ALASTAIR COOK Genetics is very much about having large numbers of animals so you can select the elite population a...
ALASTAIR NELSON But beyond a certain scale vast was simply vast.
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Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am of...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom t...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL Nightside, cities glistened in chains, and a spray of tinkertoy habitats girdled the planet. Gossame...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, ...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

My aunty says I'm the double of my father. He was a workaholic, which I've definitely inheri...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL Only an evolutionary eyeblink separated Kanu from the savannah, and that was just as true for the Ri...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS I'm always a little bit cautious around invented terminology because so much science fiction is ...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the ...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more ...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happines...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

I think I'm highly loveable.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond cove...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

I had a happy childhood.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL All I can say for certain is that, beneath the scrambled chaos of my memories, I feel a driving impe...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS

When Clive announced the team to play Southland on Tuesday, it was a rare occasion where players wer...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL Enslavement can come in many guises and the denial of knowledge is one such tragic example inflicted...
ALASTAIR R. AGUTTER Love can come from enduring ones life journey, where from such a venture, you will learn compassion ...
ALASTAIR R. AGUTTER The Arts, Hobbies, Interests and Pastimes, have served as a measurement of a civilized society over ...
ALASTAIR R. AGUTTER We've carried that over into the visual development as well. We've designed quite an exotic ...
SAM WOOD Todd and I have a very complementary working style .
SAM WOOD We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for ch...
SAM WOOD While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, To...
SAM WOOD Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sand...
VICTORIA WOOD Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason...
NATALIE WOOD The last show we played, I was straight as a die. It did feel weird not to be hiding behind alcohol ...
RON WOOD No, I never ever considered myself attractive.
LANA WOOD I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep trac...
LANA WOOD I still have never met Harry Saltzman, and was told he is quite unpleasant.
LANA WOOD When I get married it will be for keeps.
NATALIE WOOD A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.
NATALIE WOOD I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish an...
NATALIE WOOD I'm just going to have to grow old, because I'm too terrified to have anything done.
NATALIE WOOD Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting marri...
NATALIE WOOD I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.
NATALIE WOOD There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.
NATALIE WOOD Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human ...
NATALIE WOOD For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life r...
NATALIE WOOD I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, ...
NATALIE WOOD I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
NATALIE WOOD I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.
NATALIE WOOD The constant attention is what is so difficult.
NATALIE WOOD If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.
NATALIE WOOD My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later.
NATALIE WOOD I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie t...
NATALIE WOOD I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.
NATALIE WOOD I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.
NATALIE WOOD My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the tr...
NATALIE WOOD Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.
NATALIE WOOD Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
NATALIE WOOD The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.
NATALIE WOOD I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.
NATALIE WOOD We were descended from royalty.
NATALIE WOOD By not burning their poppy fields to the ground but instead maintaining a security umbrella that int...
JAKE WOOD

In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.
ELIJAH WOOD You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
BEATRICE WOOD You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and...
BEATRICE WOOD You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrate...
BEATRICE WOOD Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.
BEATRICE WOOD Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out.
BEATRICE WOOD The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which does...
BEATRICE WOOD I'm not too interested in books about India.
BEATRICE WOOD But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
BEATRICE WOOD But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
BEATRICE WOOD And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
BEATRICE WOOD And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and no...
BEATRICE WOOD A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
BEATRICE WOOD There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you ca...
BEATRICE WOOD Sex is energy.
BEATRICE WOOD I was in a convent for a year.
BEATRICE WOOD I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.
BEATRICE WOOD And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on...
BEATRICE WOOD First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me w...
BEATRICE WOOD Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
BEATRICE WOOD But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very domin...
BEATRICE WOOD Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.
BEATRICE WOOD Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
BEATRICE WOOD And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
BEATRICE WOOD I don't like to sell my finest pieces.
BEATRICE WOOD And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
BEATRICE WOOD My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
BEATRICE WOOD We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artis...
ED WOOD Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now...
ED WOOD Yes, but if you take that crap and put a star in it, then you've got something.
ED WOOD He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
ED WOOD This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he ...
ED WOOD Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello.
ED WOOD It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.
ED WOOD We shot ten minutes of the movie, and now we're looking for completion funds.
ED WOOD

and that risk is not trivial.

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