I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.

I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.

I suppose you want me to say I'm at parties all the time and am secretly going out with Tom Cruise, but I am afraid that is not the case. I'm still in my pyjamas at nine o'clock each night, watching ITV2 without telling anyone.

Good drama, challenging drama - and comedy for that matter - has a place in the daytime schedule.

I went to start the first Ethiopian-led project in paleoanthropology, ever. Doing that was not easy.

A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.

I am quite spiritual. I believed in the fairies when I was a child. I still do sort of believe in the fairies. And the leprechauns. But I don't believe in God.

I don't have a lavish lifestyle.

Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.

I never drink cow's milk; I always opt for the soya alternative, and when I eat most dairy products, it tends to be in extremely small doses. However, being a vegetarian means I have to get protein from somewhere, so I do eat eggs and cheese about once a week.

I started by hacking around the back yard in Richmond.

Any girl who likes watching movies would like to work in them and would want to do all of that. I'm also one of them. But people know me for badminton and love me for it. So I'd stick to it right now. But maybe after badminton, I'll think about it.

Generally, I don't pencil, especially with the autobiographical comics, although I've usually planed out composition in my head during the scripting stage. I like to work directly in ink, to keep the spontaneity and expression conveyed by a less worked over line.

Rich cultures, patriarchal cultures, value thin women, like ours; poor ones value fat women. But all patriarchal cultures value weak women. So for women to become physically strong is very profound.

The body responds to a calorie deficit by slowing down the metabolism and burning muscle tissue. That leads to weakness, sluggishness, slow times. In girls, it can also result in cessation of menstrual periods, which in turn leads to loss of bone density and frequent stress fractures.

Sisters ruin everything. It's in their job description.

Every gathering of Americans whether a few on the porch of a crossroads store or massed thousands in a great stadium is the possessor of a potentially immeasurable influence on the future.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.

I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.

When you hear of somebody named Goldberg, you think of a guy sitting behind a desk investing your money.

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

The Golden State has lost its luster. We've got to change our tax system and how we fund government. We're going to have to make it easier to create jobs in California, incentivize manufacturing, really put more in the way of investment in our public school system and our institutions of higher learning if we're going to stay the Golden State.

Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.

Most modern stuff I hear kinda sucks, someone should turn me onto something good, fast!

Clive Barker is just genius, and he's incredibly gifted in so many different ways. He can write and direct and paint and do all these different things, and he can do them all extremely well.