There is a long dishonourable tradition of western intellectuals who have been duped by Moscow. The list includes Bernard Shaw, the Webbs, H. G. Wells, and Andre Gide.
There have been many great fighters like Jake LaMotta, Roberto Duran, and Ricky Hatton. Hatton was a great inside fighter.
My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.
I've never been one to dwell on reverses.
I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
I've been a much happier person in my early thirties than I was in my twenties.
I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.
I've always been a very easy-going person.
Hardly any of my most memorable meals have been eaten in a restaurant, and definitely none in one of those fancy marble-floored, polished-silver establishments.
Well, I've always been eclectic.
But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.
Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.
Until I was about 13, Manhattan had been a world seen from its edges.
I've done a lot of films that all have been pretty edgy.
A film ingeniously directed does indeed give the impression of having been laid end to end, but a film ingeniously edited gives the impression of having suppressed all direction.
Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.
I think Edmonton's Rogers Place is still the nicest arena I've ever been to.
In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.
I haven't had the egomaniac star yet in any of my films. It's always been a pleasure.
For years, I have been trying to persuade people that George W. Bush, although no Einstein, is not stupid.
