Data-driven statistics has the danger of isolating statistics from the rest of the scientific and mathematical communities by not allowing valuable cross-pollination of ideas from other fields.
Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.
Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I'm away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected.
I remember very clearly someone saying, 'Don't shake hands with the cactus,' and I thought, 'Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?' Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.
I'm sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that's for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.
I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
Maybe Rachel was right all along. Maybe the past is past, history is history, and you just push it aside and look for the future.
I would absolutely like to play more leading roles. There's no philosophy - well, the only philosophy, I suppose, is to try and do different things.
God is more powerful than anybody's past, no matter how wretched. He can make us forget - not by erasing the memory but by taking the sting and paralyzing effect out of it
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.