"I don't like seeing myself on television and I don't enjoy filming. What I actually enjoy is thinking about how I am going to express something or how we are going to make the visual metaphor."

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Source : "What I see in the mirror: Robert Winston" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

Robert Winston

#Thinking Quotes #Television Quotes #Metaphor Quotes

“One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements.”
“Every problem that is interesting is also soluble.”

Source : David Deutsch's response to the Edge Annual Question: "What is Your Law?", www.edge.org. 2004.
“I live in a swimsuit so I'm really comfortable with my body.”
“I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation”
“It's elevating and humbling at the same time. Running along a beach at sunrise with no other footprints in the sand, you realize the vastness of creation, your own insignificant space in the plan, how tiny you really are, your own creatureliness and how much you owe to the supreme body, the God that brought all this beauty and harmony into being.”
“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
“Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.”
“Acting isn't the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me joy if I didn't act anymore.”

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