Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of them I have admired over the years.
I had a headache for four days after the first Haye fight. I didn't tell anyone, I just went to bed and thought it would go. But for four days it remained. Then I got my brain scan before the second fight, and I was worried when I went for it.
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
I've tried, in 'Bloodmoney,' to tell a story that gets at the crazy relationship between the ISI and the CIA, these absolutely fascinating, often mutually destructive two scorpions in a bottle kind of relationship that they have.
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
I want to tell more stories about lying, dual lives, self-deception - those are my favorites.
I'm self-deprecating because I'm British, and that's what we're supposed to be. I'm sure if I was American, I'd tell you how great I was.
The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that these are not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of self-destruction.
I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.
It's not until they tell you you're going to die soon that you realise how short life is.
I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.
I call a spade a shovel, straightforward. If I disagree with someone, I tell them.
The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
I just wanted to paint and sketch and tell stories by drawing.
Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
I'll tell you one thing you can't do: you can't put your shoes on, then your socks on.
My house is solar powered. I tell Republicans, 'You can hate the subsidies - I hate the subsidies, too - but you can't hate solar panels.'
One of the reasons I started working at 'South Park,' actually, was that I wanted to learn how to structure things and how to tell a story.
