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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

A good lawyer is going to try to protect her client.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

I'm an actress. It's my passion.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.

I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear about it in medicine and nursing. It's a lawyer-driven insistence on meeting prescribed standards rather than just being a good doctor.

Astronauts working for the government will always need to be either pilots or mission specialists. Those who want to be pilots should have military experience - ideally, a test pilot background.

A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.