The Phil Spector that I would meet has always been a nice, quiet, little guy who's very serious about his work; obviously you can tell that because each and everything he's ever done has always been charted.
There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.
Mummy was absolutely the rock in my life. It was not that I didn't love my father; he was such a quiet man, and she was not. She was the most vivid person I have ever known. She was accomplished and brave and fearless. She used to say to me, 'I want you to be able to talk to anyone about anything.'
You know there is a person inside every baby, right? And anybody who has ever met a baby knows there is already a person in there.
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
I didn't ever want to make a rap album. I considered it too limiting. Now that's exactly what I've gone and done.
I represent the Democratic party... I've never been nor do I ever plan to be a John McCain supporter. I support Barack Obama.
As the fashion carousel spins ever faster, the concern is that, while the stream of newness never runs out, there's going to be a good deal more crash and burn among designers in the future.
It doesn't matter what the scoreboard says. I'm always having fun, talking to other guys. They even come to first base and ask me about hitting. I try to help them out as much as I can in the 30 seconds before the pitcher throws the next pitch. That's me. I don't think I will ever change that.
Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote.
Praise now is one of the great duties of the redeemed. It will be their employment for ever.
I used to daydream in class about what it'd be like to be a singer. It's what I wanted to be ever since I was little, but I never knew if it'd happen or not. I was just a normal girl who was doing all the things teenagers do, but on the side, I was attending music camps and going to songwriting sessions.
I had this beer brewed just for me. I think its the best I ever tasted. And I've tasted a lot. I think you'll like it too.
I can't think I've ever loved anybody quite as much... My mother was my life, really; she was my entire world.
I've been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York.
Sometimes you go into an audition and you'll do what you think the character is, and then if they agree, then it's awesome and you'll book it maybe, and you'll live happily ever after. But sometimes they don't agree.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
If your work becomes a source of enjoyment and a challenge, it will never seem like work - it will be fun. If you ever feel that your work is a burden, there is no point carrying on with it.
Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.
Ever since I've been young I've been fascinated by the human body. I've written songs about it, but you can become quite morbid if you think about it too much - paranoid and a hypochondriac.
Dumped? Fired? Scorned? Humiliated? Totally pissed off? If so, I've got great news! You might be on your way to living your best life ever - if you consciously choose to channel this pain into fuel - and use it to motivate yourself to become your highest potential self!
My life motto is basically to lower your standards and expectations so you're never disappointed and never put any trust in anything, and I try to prepare for the day that I wake up, and everyone I know is like, 'LOL JK best long-running practical joke ever', so I've never really let myself freak out or get too excited about anything.
I am the worst strategist ever.
But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.
When I get older, if they ever do a project about Audra McDonald's life, I would love to play her, or even play her daughter in something. I love her.
Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.
I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.
By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That's why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals.
I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever.
About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin.
If I ever had to be on an amusement park ride, I probably wouldn't get on one; I'm not a very adventurous person!
When I was a kid, I used to try and hit every ball out of the ground. After playing one-day cricket and Test cricket, I never thought I'd get a chance to play like that again, ever. Twenty20 has given me the opportunity of playing like a kid again. I can just feel free and go out there and hit.
My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue, an everlasting vision of the ever changing view.
I played the best role I've ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying.
