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'Pride and Prejudice' is often compared to 'Cinderella,' but Jane Austen's real 'Cinderella' tale is 'Mansfield Park.'

I have such love for the point of obsession towards people and their minds, and I'm constantly trying to find beauty in things, and I think people are such unique and complex creatures.

I am not in a position to play in action films bashing hundreds of goons with one hand. I feel I am not really fit for high-voltage action films.

I am very quick to judge.

There's no joy without pain and there's no sunshine without rain. I didn't make that rhyme on purpose, I promise!

We're scientists; we're curious about how nature works, but we're also do-gooders. It's fantastic to think that the same experiments we'd do to understand how information gets into cells could have a...

Oviya's story is intriguing and exciting to work on. The character I play as part of the show, even if it is just for five episodes, is a crucial role that changes the course of the show.

Fox is great at making mountains out of molehills. Hannity is the best at it.

I believe everything happens for a reason.

I don't think I even understand all that Tiger's done for the game of golf.

I would love, love, love to watch Conor McGregor fight Floyd Mayweather.

Guys who feel like it makes you a man to make babies, they're completely misguided. It makes you a man to be a father. And I'm not moralising about marriage or anything. I understand that people split...

'The Chimney Sweeper's Boy' began differently from any previous book I'd written. It actually derives from a story a friend - the novel's dedicatee, Patrick Maher - told me.

My biggest frustration with the Heisman is it's become the MVP of the national champion, or a team going to the National Championship game. That's what it's turned into. If you're not undefeated,...

When I had introduced 'Kandy Floss,' I was a bundle of nerves... I had done a non-fiction programme before - 'Kosmiic Chat' with Sunita Menon. But this one I was really scared of.

When I go back to NFL functions today, I feel a bit on the outside looking in. I played 13 years in the NFL, and I loved it - made a Pro Bowl and went to the playoffs - but I always felt like I was...

I just think pressure is all what you put on yourself.

I feel as though I have established myself at Liverpool and I am enjoying it.

I like to make money; I like to have nice things. But I love to act; I love to tell stories.

I have never been one for musicians. I know girls are supposed to go crazy for frontmen who close their eyes when they sing and nod their heads when the drums kick in, but I'm like Shania Twain with...

The critic is a genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as the actor embodies in his person, another's work; only thus does he understand art, realize...

Nobody should force you to do a bad piece of work in your whole life - no client, no creative director, nobody. The job isn't to please the client; the job is to produce something for the client that...

I grew up in a very celebratory town. We celebrate everything, from life to death and everything in between. So a lot of dramatics come into my aesthetic. And I'm an actor, so that adds more to the...

I remember the moment that I realized that I was going to get the opportunity to be in my dream role, and I said, 'I just don't think life gets any better!' You have to take that moment and expand it...

Some writers like to work in other places like coffee shops, but I can't - I'd end up people-watching. And if I were at a bookstore, I'd be reading. Sometimes I have some music on, but usually I like...

The most frightening interview I've ever done was with Dr. Lonnie Thompson of The Ohio State University on the subject of global warming.

Kobe is one of the best scorers in NBA history, but I don't have as much trouble with him in the post as I do with Carmelo.

My girlfriend and I rented a nice house on the river and I was there for about two and a half months, and we were just out of Alabama. I hardly got to see Alabama.

In 2010, I was 17 or 18 and thought, 'Yeah, the Olympics, that might happen.'

I was playing basketball, and I had hemorrhoids in high school.

Our dad used to take us fishing, and I still love it.

When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.

I don't want to look old in my advanced years so I go on a power walk for half an hour every day, and it helps to keep the pounds off.