My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.
Awards shows have devolved into self-parodies - liberals in limos, corny insider jokes delivered by the hosts among bad teleprompter reading from the some of the best thespians on the planet.
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.
I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian.
I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.
Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.
My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.
The second stage set in ten or fifteen days after the bombing. Its first symptom was falling hair. Diarrhea and fever, which in some cases went as high as 106, came next.
I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.
I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It's a speech-to-text program, and there's an add-on for talking which some guys came up with.
Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.
Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.
Some time ago, I investigated the possibility that a computer might be able to reconstruct a picture from sets of very accurate X-ray measurements taken through the body at a multitude of different angles.
When my kids were young, we could move and experience different countries and, in my case, different clubs and different football, but there is a moment when they need some stability.
I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.
While some of my closest friends were jocks, it seemed that they spoke a different language with each other. Joining in their conversation was fraught with risk.
Obviously, international rugby is a different level, but there are some really good players around.
I'd have to be superman to do some of the things I'm supposed to have done, I've been at six different places at six different times.
What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts.
