We lost everything. We even won our own constituency.

Behind every great man there is a suprised woman.

We lost everything. We even won our own constituency.

Behind every great man there is a surprised woman.

Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get bored writing one kind of thing all the time.

Nobody knows the life of the working comic.

Yoga is establishing an harmonious connection to your inner world with outer world.

People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.

In survey after survey, the Iraqi people say, 'We want to choose our leaders.'

Celador always ask me to do their shows, and I turned down 'Millionaire.' I couldn't have done it as well as Chris Tarrant, or at least I couldn't have done it any better.

And the fact of the matter is there were thousands of people that went through those training camps in Afghanistan. We know they are seeking deadlier weapons - chemical, biological and nuclear weapons if they can get it.

An action choreographer is kind of like a dance choreographer. You choreograph the moves and you let the director, cinematographer take into positioning their cameras.

It seems a lot of straight men need a word coach or a lawyer when it comes to discussing 'Sex and the City.'

Science has been quite embattled. It's the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix global warming. They may do other valuable things, but they are not going to fix the planet or cure cancer or get rid of malaria.

A salute from this corner to President Bush for saying he was willing to investigate raising or eliminating the cap on salaries subject to the Social Security tax.

Many conservatives were openly angry with the Bush administration over enormous government spending and the chaos in Iraq. I don't see as much independent thinking on the left, where President Obama is rarely criticized by his acolytes.

I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them.

I want to do good, and I want people to be happy, and sometimes when you're a people pleaser, you spread yourself too thin.

I write through improvisation. I never card out a movie. You know how people will outline or card? I don't do that. I tend to start with an idea and go.

My attempt at really doing classic sort of songwriting is Shins stuff.

Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

I'm still a Welsh girl at heart so I'm staying in the U.K. for the Olympics, it's such an exciting time for Britain so it's amazing to be a part of it.

I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

Climate change is a terrible problem and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

I never read any of the comics, but I grew up on the animated series when I was a little kid - I guess it came out in 1992. So I've always been an 'X-Men' fan.

It is true that, when an entitlement begins to be enjoyed by people, they like to keep it.

I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.