Watson Quotes - Page 6

• You can compare Holmes and Watson to great Shakespearean characters, in a way. They've been played by hundreds of actors over the years, and each one is a different interpretation - the source material can take that form of interpretation.

  Jude Law

  Character, Years, Different

  "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - Jude Law interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I'll tell you a little fun fact about the film, though. Me, the little boy playing Chip, Emma Thompson, and Emma Watson, all have the same birthday. We were all in on the same day and they all sang us "Happy Birthday." That will never happen in my life again: Four of us having the same birthday on the same film, and we're all in on the same day. It was an extraordinary thing.

  Luke Evans

  Fun, Boys, Four

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Mercy Watson is pure fun for me as a writer, because I think of her as kind of sorbet - a palate cleanser - between larger works. It's always a relief to come back to her.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Fun, Thinking, Relief

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I think of Mercy Watson like a superball; there's a bouncy kind of optimism to her stories. She allows me to play, and she makes me laugh. Hopefully readers feel the same way.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Thinking, Play, Laughing

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

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• Mercy Watson was a character that had been in my head for a long time.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Character, Long, Mercy

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

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• Mercy Watson is a pig. She lives with Mr. and Mrs. Watson, who are not pigs. I had that basic premise, but I couldn't make it work. I would come back to it, try it, see that I was failing, and put it aside.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Pigs, Trying, Failing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Nearly half a century has passed since Watson proclaimed his manifesto. Today, apart from a few minor reservations, the vast majority of psychologists, both in this country and in America, still follow his lead. The result, as a cynical onlooker might be tempted to say, is that psychology, having first bargained away its soul and then gone out of its mind, seems now, as it faces an untimely end, to have lost all consciousness.

  Cyril Burt

  Country, America, Cynical

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• Who comes first? Don't be silly, says King Hal; it's employees. That is - and this dear Watson, is elementary - if you genuinely want to put customers first, you must put employees more first.

  Tom Peters

  Kings, Business, Silly

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.55, Vintage

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• Mercy Watson is obsessed with toast. What was blocking me was the challenge of trying to understand what she loves, what motivates her. That was the missing piece. Toast became the physical symbol of Mercy's hopefully endearing greed and obsession. Without that element in place, it didn't make sense.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Block, Greed, Missing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The Watsons have lost sight of the fact that Mercy Watson is a pig, and they love her truly, madly, deeply. They live next door to two elderly sisters, Eugenia Lincoln and Baby Lincoln. Eugenia Lincoln is horrified that a pig is living in the house next door. Baby Lincoln secretly likes Mercy a great deal.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Baby, Sight, Pigs

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Watson love Mercy [Watson]. Eugenia hates Mercy. Baby likes Mercy. Mercy loves toast. And the plot, if you want to be so generous as to call it a plot, turns on those elements. love Mercy. Eugenia hates Mercy. Baby likes Mercy. Mercy loves toast. And the plot, if you want to be so generous as to call it a plot, turns on those elements.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Baby, Hate, Likes

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The funny thing is, when I've gone through the relentless editing process, my editor and I are amazed the Mercy Watson books still make us laugh. The same jokes that made us laugh the first time around still make us laugh in the 16th rendition.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Editors, Editing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Beyond Bookchin”, David Watson, of Fifth Estate, argues that aboriginal society represents a viable Utopia. He quotes favourably the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins; “We are inclined to think of hunters and gatherers as poor because they don’t have anything, perhaps better to think of them for that reason as free.

  Marshall Sahlins

  Thinking, Hunters, Arguing

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• If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Knowledge, Drs, May

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• Jerry Jones and Chris Christie are probably the most important latent homosexual relationship since Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

  Kinky Friedman

  Important, Drs, Holmes

  "Kinky Friedman calls Chris Christie and Jerry Jones gay on ESPN, host apologizes for comments" by Joshua Fechter, www.sfgate.com. January 8, 2015.

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• Ah! my dear Watson, there we come into those realms of conjecture, where the most logical mind may be at fault. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Mind, Drs, May

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• James Watson summarizes the conclusion: “A predisposition does not a predetermination make.

  Walter Mischel

  Doe, Conclusion

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• It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Fun, Simple, Bluegrass

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• I'm going to continue working as a model. I want to do it all! And I think it's possible to keep working while you go to school. Christy Turlington did it. Natalie Portman did it. Emma Watson just did it! And those are just women in the public eye, but plenty of others do it, too. You know, women around the world are great at multitasking. We do it well.

  Karlie Kloss

  School, Eye, Thinking

  "Emma Watson Is Karlie Kloss's New Role Model" by Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. March 16, 2015.

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• Although I'm not prepared to move up my prediction of a computer passing the Turing test by 2029, the progress that has been achieved in systems like Watson should give anyone substantial confidence that the advent of Turing-level AI is close at hand. If one were to create a version of Watson that was optimized for the Turing test, it would probably come pretty close.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Moving, Hands, Giving

  Ray Kurzweil (2012). “How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed”, p.180, Penguin

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• I'm not in the gossips that much, but something I read recently was that me and Emma Watson are having a feud. And I've never even met her.

  Emma Roberts

  Gossip, Feuds, Emma

  "The Family Moan". E!, January 12, 2006.

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• Sherlock and Watson are a love story

  Martin Freeman

  Stories, Love Story

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• Benedict (Cumberbatch, who is playing Sherlock) looks amazing. He's still got a Sherlockian silhouette, with a large overcoat, but in a classic cut. Watson dresses with an urban elegance, a touch of old school dashing, giving a feeling of both the military and medical profession. I suppose it's something they have in common as well. They're a bit metrosexual.

  Martin Freeman

  Military, Old School, Cutting

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• You want to have enough of a profile to be able to do all the work you can, but at the same time you want to have your own space. But there are a lot of actors who achieve it, a lot of movie stars even, people like Emily Watson and Cate Blanchett. They seem to be able to carry on with their lives and still produce wonderful, high-profile work.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Stars, Space, People

  "Real-life romance". Interview with Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2004.

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• Two young actresses I admire are Emma Stone and Emma Watson, because they are intelligent, talented actresses and have a great sense of humor. They have learned to balance what they love in life - acting, school and everything else.

  Kara Hayward

  School, Intelligent, Two

  "A Chat With ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ Actress Kara Hayward And A Salute To Wes Anderson’s Leading Ladies". Interview with Simone Kitchens, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2012.

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