Wonder Why would say, 'Why is the sky blue?'…Then Wonder Why would tell you. I was fascinated, because I wanted to know how things worked ... that was my introduction to science.
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Vox, to writers and thinkers, 9 Questions, 2017
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Patricia Edmonds, National Geographic, 3 February 2017 source ↗
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View all 29 →In that brief transition time, it felt like the question to ask yourself is what is the biggest learning opportunity? Where can I grow more?
the time that I got to spend with my teammates, the learning about life and about different people's beliefs and different people's opinions about things, those are the things that I'll take away. Those are the things that I'm going to value the most about my time spent on the team.
I’m surrounded by 60 people that are doing smart things all the time. They probably don’t realize it but I’m learning constantly from every single one of them.
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View profile →I am being careful not to clutter my life with career administration so I can keep the focus on the acting.
"The love you take is equal to the love you make" – Lennon/McCartney.
You now have to address the fact that we might live in so-called wealthy countries at the expense of people who live in poor countries. Our wealth is maybe dependent on somebody else from the poverty side of the equation, suffering on our behalf.
The only experience I’ve had, in the early 90s I was working in the theatre and I went through a very bad period, 3 or 4 years, of dread inducing panic attacks before going out on stage and then I got an international film career and they sort of disappeared [laughter].
My own snoring.
I dreamt of being an astronomer, I had a series of How and Why Books on the planets and the stars.
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