I never had a sister growing up. Donny was the closest thing.
I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was 12. And I was hooked.
I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.
I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.
History happens as soon as I pick up my coffee cup - it happened 30 seconds ago. It's history.
I'm an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.
We're playing the Superbowl this year, we're opening up before the coins drop.
I'm from the Detroit area, just north of Detroit. But then I went to boarding school in northern Michigan, so a little bit colder up there. But beautiful, very beautiful.
I like flipping Coldplay. And I like Jessie Ware. But I'm sure how we grew up was totally different.
Dietz and Schwartz have sort of fallen by the wayside a little bit, and they are up there with Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin and Cole Porter. They are the finest of the revue composers - their stuff is so good and so strong.
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.
I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
I grew up in a commune where no one considered me female, particularly.
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
I don't know what would have happened to Wal-Mart if we had laid low and never stirred up the competition. My guess is that we would have remained a strictly regional operator.
We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we're trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.
Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.
