And there was a movement afoot to take another year off, and if we had been able to do that, and rethink everything, I think when we came back it would have been very different.
There is magic in Scotland. It's country with a lot of pride and bravery. I feel lucky to have been born into that.
For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.
I'd always been around kids, and when you don't have kids, you have a lot more time to do things. Before I had kids, I was a lot more prolific and wrote books a lot faster.
I've always been comfortable with my size.
This nation has been through hard times. But those hard times have hardened our resolve. I'm ready to do the difficult work ahead. But I want to do that work with Barack Obama, and not a Tea Party ideologue. We can move America forward, but we can only do it together.
The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right.
I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.
Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.
The contribution of Anthony William Greig to English cricket has been underestimated because of his allegiance to Kerry Packer and his choice to recruit players for World Series Cricket while still the England captain. His critics hold that as a black mark against him, which rules out anything else he may have done.
I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me.
So now what happens is the cameras follow me around and capture exactly what I've been doing since I was a boy. Only now we have a team of, you know, like 73 of us, and it's gone beyond that.
There are certain things I talk to my mom and certain things I speak to dad for. But I also know that it has never been that I can tell my mum something and my dad won't know. They are very dependent on each other even though they may not say it or realise it.
I think because I've maintained my residence in New York, those kinds of films have been more accessible.
Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.
I feel like I have been totally blessed with everything that I have done.
Poetry has always been made to seem kind of cultish. But the truth is, everybody really loves it! It's much more mainstream than anyone thought.
I started tweeting with the first film I directed. I found it the best way to promote it and to connect to the audience, and since then, it's been very helpful.
Some newer writers worry about books set in Canada having a big appeal, but it has never been an issue for me. I haven't wanted to write in the States because I don't know the States.
Everything seems to have been turned upside-down, but in a good way.
The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.
I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy, to period film... I can't sit still.
I've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I've got, but each time I come away, I feel that I've learned something that I want to work on.
The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
There's something to be said about just being vulnerable. Every woman has gone through something in her life that has been an image issue, or it has been something where somebody told her she's not good enough. And every woman can relate to that.
Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
I'm big into fishing, but I've never been much of a hunter. I never was really raised around it a whole lot, so I never got a chance to do it a whole lot.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a period of darkness, and their success can easily be seen.
From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
For as long as I've been acting, I have been very lucky to be paired with really great actresses playing my mom.
There are enough stories about my family. We have all been in the public eye.
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.
Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.
