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...only by the availability of willing partners, but the demands of providing for too big a brood are a powerful incentive to limit your pairings to the female who will give you just a few strong young. For that reason, no sooner do we reach sexual maturity than we learn to look for signals of good genes and reproductive fitness in potential partners and, importantly, to display them ourselves. "Every living human is a descendant of a long line of successful maters," says David Buss, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin. "We've adapted to pick...
...game? Andy's got talent. I think he tries to blast winners rather than wait for the right ball to blast. He's got that big forehand and that big serve, but for some reason... What I think he should do is serve and volley. Just come in and learn to hit some low volleys and put some pressure on an opponent, because all his opponents do is float that first ball back, and he hasn't taken advantage of that huge first serve that...
...mountaineer. She was very much involved in the out-of-doors, and was lots of fun. We did a lot of family treks, we really enjoyed them. They weren't really extreme, they were more camping trips, but pretty energetic trekking. We were very keen that the kids should learn to enjoy the out-of-doors, enjoy swimming and camping and walking around the hills and all the rest of it. But I never at any stage really tried to persuade them - even Peter - to become a mountaineer...
...about your acting ability. Truly, acting is so much about casting. Tom was the exact right guy to play it. He knew exactly what to do. He's a pro. We all sort of work in the same vein, Tom, Tilda, myself, we're of the ilk that says, learn your lines, hit your mark and say your lines. There isn't a lot of making a whole lot of making everyone on the set suffer through it. I really appreciate that on a film like this. We shot it very cheap and we didn't have...
...been the best thing that's happened in my life. I got married in Bermuda, one of the most beautiful places on the planet to get married, to an absolutely incredible person who really has been my real support mechanism. I've been able to learn a lot through diet and exercise, but I've got to tell you, it's having true love in your life and somebody who has your back 24 hours a day that makes the difference...