The team pulled together very well, whatever we tried worked.

The double hundred Fowler hit in the Madras Test was an absolute beauty.

As a player you are always made to feel welcome, but at the same time, there is too much pressure.

The team pulled together very well, whatever we tried worked.

They have an understanding regime; they work hard and get results, they are a happy team.

People are talking of his susceptibility to the rising delivery, but let me tell you that when you are out of form, every ball looks like a hand grenade.

He is a very positive captain; he is proactive as well as reactive. He is keen to read the game, to get in there, and he never stops thinking about the game, the situation, and trying to turn it to his advantage. He has been very good for the game.

It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.

So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes.

The way the tour has developed has been as good an example of that as you would like to see.

The one major disappointment I have is that I didn't get a hundred against India in India. I got lots of runs against India in England including a double hundred I am very proud of.

Nasser Hussain is brilliant. I am very impressed with him. With no disrespect to the current players, he has had to work with material which is not of the highest quality.

You can make plans but if the opposition plays well, then all your plans become worthless.

Using taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. High taxes and excessive regulation and massive debt are not working.

Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.

There is a story behind every little emotion that a person experiences in life. You are the most beautiful story behind the emotion of love in my heart.

I like doing business in a black city.

I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage.

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.

I love that he's both comic and tragic, and highly poetic but also just dirty at times. ... I love that within the world of Shakespeare's plays, the whole world is sort of encompassed in a certain way.

Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding.

Candidly, I believe most corporations actually don't mind big government.

My mom always told me, 'You're very smart; you're very funny.' She never told me, 'You're very beautiful.'

The popularity of the Internet and using it as an available resource has really changed the way chefs kind of gather information and look for inspiration. To me, a food trend is potentially a lot of people following an idea.

We need some creative tension; people crying out for the things they want.

I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.

Filmmaking is hard. I mean, it's not that hard, but it is hard to find your way through a system because there's a lot of people, there's money, there's a big machine to kind of make it - and how to find methods and processes that allow it to continue to be a lively process and a creative process.

When I was at university, there was such a strong delineation between city kids and those who had grown up the suburbs. City kids were so at home in the world, in a way that suburban kids take years to catch up, if indeed they ever can.

I want to be successful, and I want to do good, but I also want to be myself.

Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church and drive men out of the Church as breach of unity.

God has blessed me. I've been given a lot. I'm at peace with myself. It's time to give back.

Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?

I'm fascinated by how much we, as women, have to subjugate and hide ourselves in order to get on in the world.

I hope that the message I conveyed in 'Julie of the Wolves' is to tell young people to think things out. Think independently.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.