There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.

The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles.

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

I am not against Muslim schools. But as I believe in integration, I think we would be better off overall if we did not have denominational schools at all.

All businessmen are scum.

I don't think we can go into important local elections next year... with Tony Blair as leader and expect to keep many of the councillors we've got now.

I think I've had a very privileged life.

If you say someone is thrilled, it implies talk of an exciting project. I'm wary of such talk.

It is more important for Labour to raise the reputation of politics than for the Tories, who are only in politics for the money.

My own view is that if you filled every member of the parliamentary Labour party with a truth drug and lashed them to a polygraph lie detector, very, very few of them would support foundation hospitals.

I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.

Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.

The last five - six presidents of Haiti have failed miserably. And I don't think it would be an honor for me to say I want to be the next 'president.' I want to be the man by with whom change arrives.

Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.

I became a cartoonist because I'd sort of failed at everything else, really. I mean, it was by default.

A friend of mine has a trophy wife, but apparently, it wasn't first place.

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories.

I started, obviously, doing theater, and I always thought that I would; in a way, I always thought that I'd be a theater actor. When I was starting out, I didn't really plan on making films, actually.

I've never been fired in my life.

Breast cancer is scary and no one understands that like another woman who has gone through it too.

I like circle time and school drop-off. And I like that I have kids still willing to hold my hand.

Am I ever going to be able to play football again? What's going on with my career? I was just thinking things like that. You've got tears going down your eyes. You've got your trainers right there and my parents right there. I was just thinking, "Is this it?" I didn't know what a knee injury was. I'd never felt pain like that.

Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.

You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

When you're in the entertainment industry, you have to be more mature, be able to hang with the adults.

A zealous Savior ought to have zealous disciples.

When I watch my kids, and I see the primal level at which the sibling relationships are formed, then I completely understand what these unresolved adult sibling problems are based on. You know, 'Mom liked you better' and, 'You got your own room and I didn't.'

Nothing that I've done has been conventional. I didn't go with a major label, I didn't sign up with the bigwig management that basically has everyone but doesn't have time for anyone. I didn't win 'Idol' - I was seventh. I don't do anything how everybody else does it.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything.

I have a fear of doing stuff that's not very good and being remembered for that.

A short story can be packed with meaning and impact, with the concentrated density of a collapsed star, but should preferably also have a kind of elegant simplicity.