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We need a pope to oversee not simply a modernization of the church but its total transformation.

I once gave a talk at a girls' school and, once I'd finished, 29 out of the 30 girls wanted to be film directors. I think that's where we need to get girls interested in making films. We need to give them the idea that they can, that it's one of the things on their horizon.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

As a rule of thumb, it was always safer if the Commander-in-Chief formulated a risky plan.

I started reading and talking and interviewing nutritionists and a thread was starting to form for me which is - a protein digests in a different rate of speed than a carbohydrate.

I wouldn't want to be a mother that put blinders on and didn't see what was going on with my child. There can be huge consequences to such a thing.

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, dont you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

I got to work with Cillian Murphy and my dad, Jim Broadbent and Jodie Whittaker on 'Perrier's Bounty.' It was a small part, but it was really special.

The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks.

Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder.

Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.

But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.

Much of the magic of language, of course, lies in its fluidity.

I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.

I wore a thong and a bra and a wig. Those things hurt. I mean, thongs? Like, they dig in. It takes a tough man to be a woman.

If there's a recession, I'd buy stocks. That's when you make money: when markets are spooked.

I didn't get my licence because I wasn't allowed to. But I haven't had a seizure for a long time so I could, theoretically, get my licence. But I'm now just so used to not driving, I'm scared of what I'd do.

One of the key things is, when you look at semiconductor companies, it's all about experience.

If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.