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I was a hotshot as a junior. When I was 18, I really got into fiddling around. I completely lost interest in golf, and I guess all I could think about was going to college, getting married and having...

My favourite thing is to come down to London from my home in Staffordshire in the helicopter and then get my bike out of the back and cycle into London. It's wonderful.

I spent ten years being told there was no way I was going to have a career because I was so effeminate.

I have always said there are just two people who could make me change my decision to stay at Barcelona. One of those two people is my wife.

There's inherent cultural imbalance whenever you're translating from Chinese to English. Educated Chinese readers are expected not only to know about all the Chinese references - history, language,...

It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.

The song 'Can't Look Back Now' by the Weepies reminds me of the entire 'Life Unexpected' experience.

There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty...

When you're improvising, you connect with people in a way you don't in normal life, strangely.

I put it in the back of my mind that someday I would fly around the world.

Libertarians regard the state as the Supreme, the eternal, the best organized aggressor against the persons and property of the mass of the public. All states everywhere, whether democratic,...

I hope that we continue with exploration.

When I first moved to L.A. and was a babysitter for a mentally ill billionaire's ex-wife, she taught me a lot. She taught me that when you are in L.A., you need to keep your immediate needs as small...

The biggest reward for any actor is to be recognised by the characters they play.

Revathi madam is a legend, and I have seen young actresses set her performance as a benchmark.

In Washington, it's often easy to go to work, get lost in the process, and forget why we're here every day. The reason we're here is to serve the American people.

I dream of playing in the English league.

In the newspaper business, I was in the last generation before the arrival of the personnel manager. You were hired by editors - and editors who would take a chance on what they perceived to be talent...

Surprise is not humor. I think that there can be a fine line there.

My parents had two rules: You had to go to college, and you had to pay for it yourself. So we all did.

I definitely have not had a linear path. I have had more of a path where I've meandered with a sense of purpose. Really, what that means is it's about being true to your convictions and your passions...

I am like every single fighter - going into the ring, I have in my mind, 'Finish the bout before all the rounds are over, and to get the victory before that.'

Let me put it this way, the earliest memory I have of my dad, I think I got beat up by some kids and he looked at me and said, 'hey, you get in a fight, you win. I don't care if you have to pick up a...

I will give my heart in every match and in every situation. I can promise that. I'm going to give 100 per cent every day.

From my point of view, we have the two communities: the tech community on one side and the rather social-scientific, philosophical community on the other side. We have, from my impression, a...

We shoot double episodes in 15 days in Los Angeles.

I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.

Politicians should inspire you to vote, they should appeal to people.

You cannot underestimate the impact the Internet has had on British fashion.

If some modern-day David Brock wanted to defect from the conservative movement and write a tell-all focused solely on the financial chicanery of the entire right-wing nonprofit/think tank/publishing...

It's a lot harder to rack up a big bill on clothes and shoes than on boats and cars.

I was going to school; I was working - at one point, I had two jobs - and I was still trying to train and fight.

Within each of us dwells a higher order of consciousness created with a possibility far greater than to merely appear and disappear as some form in the river of passing time.