We have ourselves to answer for.

We have ourselves to answer for.

The Phillies liked the work I had done with the Cubs, and really wanted me there. They were on the phone as soon as my contract was up in Chicago, and it was just a great feeling to be wanted, to be appreciated for the work you do.

For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't get the rights, so we decided to create something from scratch, with Jonathan. By that time we were big fans of his work.

I liked women as a shape to dress.

One of the reasons I'm an interesting person to be married to is my intensely late-blooming self-awareness.

One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.

I feel that when Chad is in the room, I can tap into this other thing where music comes from. I don't know. It's just this really magical, special connection and relationship.

Nowadays they have 12 directors and 15 producers and 30 writers. And all the writers want their lines said a certain way-which isn't necessarily funny. I mean the lines aren't necessarily so funny to begin with.

I was lucky because I got so successful so early, and when you get successful early, then you can afford to be a little bit humble.

The only safer cigarette is your last one.

People say, 'If you open a movie online at the same time as in movie theatres, no one is going to go to the movies.' That's just not true. People love to go out and have a shared experience; they always will.

I slap people in public, especially erring policemen. I can even challenge them to a duel. I am a gunfighter.

Chechnya is part and parcel of the Russian Federation.

Even if it's not always the best markup, what are Facebook and Twitter? They're web standards with some scripts. They may not validate, but they're still CSS layouts and simple markup, and that's great!

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

I've lost count of the number of times that I've been approached by strangers wanting to tell me that they think I'm brave or inspirational, and this was long before my work had any kind of public profile.

A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.

I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance.

Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.

I got into psychology simply because that's what my sister did, and I grew up in a family that was very, like, 'Follow your sister's footsteps.' I went to the same school she went to, did the same degree she did... really had no interest in it, to be honest.

We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.

The whole of government needs to contribute to the shared goal of restructuring the British economy. But that means taking on the myth that the Treasury either knows best or can run it all. It just doesn't.

I take an active role in my imaging and how I look.

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

For us, it is very important all the time that our core business is really good but that we don't stop moving.