I do not regret working with Rupert Murdoch. But there is a nasty undertone to a lot of what he does which does not exist with the Barclays.
Scandinavian-Danish cuisine was something quite rustic, mostly known for pastries and smorgasbord cuisine, which in itself has become a joke.
I'm more prone to his '70s material, which is what I was around for and watched a lot. I listen to a lot of that stuff. It probably influenced me quite a bit. I'm more drawn to the darker, sadder songs.
The Romans brought with them spices such as ginger, pepper and cinnamon, and herbs including borage, chervil, dill, fennel, lovage, sage and thyme, all of which have remained staples of the British kitchen.
I have made of Sydney, to which I sailed in 1965, a paradise beyond the powers of fancy.
Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
The martyrologies are catalogues in which are to be found the names of the saints with the days and places of their deaths and, generally, with the distinctive character of their sanctity and with an historic summary of their lives.
As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.
The north-west coast of America is that mixture of beauty and savagery, which I felt was very similar to the Dorset coast.
It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
English is full of Scandinavian words. Margate, Ramsgate, Billingsgate, any town with a 'gate' on it takes their suffix from the Danish word 'gade' which simply means 'street.'
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.
A good scientific theory is one which is falsifiable, which has not been falsified.
Picasso took scraps of wallpaper, and instead of using paint and a brush, he used all the existing elements which he made his artwork with.
I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas.
I did a film called 'Days and Nights,' which is a modern-day retelling of and inspired by Chekhov's 'The Seagull.'
Sean Spicer has somehow been doing PR since 1999, which is 18 years. Somehow, after 18 years, his go-to move was denying the Holocaust.
One of my favorite dishes in the world used to be steak tartare, which is raw ground beef seasoned and then served.
