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One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.

We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need.

Film is not an amazing medium to relay interiority. I think literature is much better for that.

I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white.

Hey, I may loathe myself, but it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm Jewish.

The earliest English attempts at rhyming probably included words whose agreement is so slight that it deserves the name of mere 'assonance' rather than that of actual rhyme.

When I was studying in London, I worked part-time as a waitress. I was teaching drama to kids. I did a lot of odd jobs to pay for my studies.

In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I'm thinking of Italy. You go out on a Sunday afternoon and the whole family is there.

The surprising thing is that so many teenage cancer novels are very good. John Green's 'The Fault in Our Stars,' recently published by Penguin, was voted Time Magazine's book of the year in 2012 ahead of Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith.

I'm old school. We're from a small town in Georgia, and I think if we do pictures before the wedding, I think I'm gonna be blindfolded.

When people have too many choices, they make bad choices.

Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.

Let's cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don't think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would be. I failed to find the right words. I succeeded in confusing people. I've made mistakes - that's probably one of them.

I'm not tribal Labour. I'm a Liberal at heart. Different tradition, different language.

I lift my voice of warning against praising or flattering your ministers. I have seen the evil, the dreadful evil, of praising ministers. Never, never speak a word in the praise of ministers to their faces. Exalt God.

between the love and the lust, between the feelings and the hormones, between the heart and the body love, feelings and the heart prevails over everything else.

New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work, like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone.

I have been listening a lot to The Carpenters and Neil Diamond, Elton John, and thinking, like, 'God, it'd be great to write a sort of subversive, alternative ballad,' like Lou Reed does so well with 'Perfect Day.' And I really loved 'Video Games' - at the time, it hadn't really got as big, but it's a classic song; you can't deny it.

'Chewing Gum Dreams' should make you look twice at the girl shouting on the bus and not just cuss her off from your life.