Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.


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Dad's funeral was standing room only; most in attendance were strangers to me. At the back, a lo...
IAN WATSON
When I go to the interviews and sit before a prospective employer, I'm going to try and look as ...
IAN WATSON
I'm working class. Not because my family have always been skint or because I'm from the grim...
IAN WATSON
People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying football...
IAN WATSON
That iPad you just bought. Do you care that it cost a few pence to manufacture? No. It's cost yo...
IAN WATSON
My wife will automatically quote and compare the price of diesel at every petrol station we drive by...
IAN WATSON
Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laug...
IAN WATSON
Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where...
IAN WATSON
I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We h...
IAN WATSON
Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alt...
IAN WATSON
I believe I've got the best of both worlds - a modern man with old fashioned values. I'm hap...
IAN WATSON
I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in o...
IAN WATSON
My father-in-law just happens to be a global procurement guru. Now retired, he was the global head o...
IAN WATSON
Tokyo in the late 1960s seemed to be like one of the futures that science fiction presents. Here was...
IAN WATSON
The only time I even entertain the tiniest element of religion is for Christmas carols.
IAN WATSON
I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an...
IAN WATSON
We'll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we've lost in the l...
PAUL WATSON
Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.
PAUL WATSON
No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned w...
TOM WATSON
Golf is a game of ego, but it is also a game of integrity: the most important thing is you do what i...
TOM WATSON
Men—I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. Gender equality is you...
EMMA WATSON
We want to empower people to take action and make change and translate their passion into really doi...
EMMA WATSON
I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
EMMA WATSON
If not me, who? If not now, when?
EMMA WATSON
It’s a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell...
EMMA WATSON
It’s almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I�...
EMMA WATSON
I am willing to be seen.
I am willing to speak up.
I am willing to keep going.
I am...
EMMA WATSON
It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have fai...
EMMA WATSON
I don't want other people to decide what I am. I want to decide that for myself.
EMMA WATSON
Don’t let anyone tell you what you can and can’t do or achieve. Do what you want to do and be wh...
EMMA WATSON
The saddest thing a girl can do is dumb herself down for a guy.
EMMA WATSON
What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you.
EMMA WATSON
I've always been like that; I give 100 percent. I can't do it any other way.
EMMA WATSON
I'm willing to be seen.
I'm willing to speak up.
I'm willing to keep going.
I'm willi...
EMMA WATSON
I'm reading so much and exposing myself to so many new ideas. It almost feels like the chemistry and...
EMMA WATSON
If not me, who?
If not now, when?
EMMA WATSON
If you truly pour your heart into what you believe in, even if it makes you vulnerable, amazing thin...
EMMA WATSON
When you go to work, you are a Christian at your workplace. You're not a broadcaster who happens...
BENJAMIN WATSON
I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle; I've been fighting so hard to have an ...
EMMA WATSON
We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of...
PAUL WATSON
In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.
BARRY WATSON
I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with bei...
BARRY WATSON
I did. I did see Bigfoot when I was a kid and I still believe it to this day. I saw a big furry man ...
BARRY WATSON