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A lot of small towns in Texas have only volunteer fire departments. And even though they're called volunteer fire departments, they are usually very professional and have great training and usually have good equipment.

The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.

My first kiss was actually in a graveyard.

Success causes us to be more praised than known.

I actually think that the Republicans are the party of jobs and the Democrats are the party of mobs.

...as if, one lover gone, I was opening up for an immediate replacement. Smack habit, love habit - what's the difference? They can both kill you. For the bus journey I fell in love with a woman who smiled at me. The motion of the bus made her thick mop of fair curls tremble. We talked about desperados. 'I am fatally attracted to them', I said. 'In fact, I probably am one'.

I've never watched a race live from Ascot. I used to make sure I didn't miss Black Caviar run, but that wasn't at Ascot.

I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

We need to understand the difference between freedom of religion - which is absolutely guaranteed and I would fervently defend. Sharia law is politics; it's not religion. If you say that a woman is voluntarily going to be of lesser value than a man, which is in sharia law, can we allow that?

Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.

At just 16 years old, I was told that my back would never be the same again. My well-being had been neglected for the opportunity to win a gold medal.

If the young only knew; if the old only could.

You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God.

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

I do consider myself British. I have very strong feelings about my British heritage.

When you see or hear something beautiful, it's like that thing is transmitting a kind of energy, and if that energy helped create the work, the only thing I can do is play it when I finally show the work.

Worry is the darkroom in which negatives can develop.

I've enjoyed the time I've had working on films. I've enjoyed television movie-of-the-week format. I've enjoyed the few comedies that I've done, and I've enjoyed one-hour television.

My education, according to the tradition of the Jesuit school which I attended, had been centered on the 'ancient humanities', and I was strongly attracted to the more literary branches.