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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.

If I'm honest, the thing I am proudest of is my varieties of wild flowers in the hay meadow.

The Remain campaign... I've never seen a more miserable offering. All they are saying is stay in and we'll do our best to make sure that Britain's Parliamentary independence isn't eroded faster than we can possibly imagine.

Dream a little harder; now act with wonder.

I interjected saying one would generally have to be human to have human rights.

The craziest place I've probably ever visited while filming would have to be Jordan. I did a small test shoot for a test movie. We arrived in Jordan, and we stayed in Amman for a night. Then we drove down for three hours into the middle of the Wadi Rum Desert, which is in the absolute middle of nowhere. It was insane.

Nobody can give you happiness than yourself.

You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.

Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that - a stern enforcer.

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.

Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a couple of years. I didn't do anything for a while, apart from taking up golf, for which I got a four handicap.

Breathe your way to a calmer, healthier, happier life. Heavily. Down the phone to a terrified woman.

Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.

The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

A fundamental premise in cancer therapy is trying to identify how the metabolism of cancer cells differs from normal tissue. When differences are identified, it often paves the way for treatments that will disrupt the cancer's metabolism while sparing normal tissue.