I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable.

I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable.

I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways.

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me.

But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared.

We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three.

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow.

That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it.

In London, Man is the most secret animal on earth.

Such a morning it is when love leans through geranium windows and calls with a cockerel's tongue.

I am the kind of person that wants to get up in front of crowds of strangers and perform monologues. To each their own.

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. Its not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life eager to irritate us provoke and insult us tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

I wear a lot of different jewellery. I love to look for it when I'm abroad or if I find a great antique or vintage shop.

My experience of my father's death was that it was still taboo; nobody would meet me after my father died because they didn't know what to say.

Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to be liable for it. Banks don't look at signatures. They're processing millions of checks and they have very little liability.

I find that one must accept the people in such a way as they are.

I'm a real hoarder.

I was a guy who needed to go to class, because I had some raw talent that I thought was identifiable, when I finally made a decision to be an actor. And yet I wanted to learn how to really do the stuff. You know, 'How do I get to be a serious actor?'

Whenever I feel like I'm getting too far away from where I need to be, I think about my sons and the legacy I have to leave for them - and it always brings me back to reality.

It's especially gratifying to have done a film like 'Eight Men Out' because it's hard not to have fun when there are so many bats and balls around.

Gilles Duceppe avoids making campaign promises altogether so he can emphasize that his Bloc Quebecois has only one objective: to prevent Harper from forming a majority government.

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.

First at the outset, let me commend the great men and women of the United States Coast Guard for what they do.

Though designed as a mere convenience, clothing sizes establish an unintended norm, an ideal from which deviations seem like flaws. There's nothing like a trip to the dressing room to convince a woman - fat, thin, or in between - that she's a freak.

I've always been tenacious.

Nothing good ever comes out of hurry and frustration, only misery.

It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

I personally love a cliffhanger - I think it just extends the pleasure of viewing.

The Old Testament teaches us that if we humble ourselves and pray, God will hear from heaven and heal our land. And the New Testament assures us that the fervent prayers of righteous men can make a difference.

When I think about old Hollywood and the glamour of those days, women like Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, and Audrey Hepburn were not dressing the way some girls dress today. There was a certain mystery about them, and I feel like that's gone in our industry.

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

I want to learn to sight-read music. And to play the bass pedals on the organ. Those are my only ambitions.

When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.

I have a series of exercises in which I do a lot of core. I enjoy an ab workout. I practice every day and do many different types.