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If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.

It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.

My body believes a famine is imminent and has begun stocking up on provisions. These supplies are being stored around my waistline. I've tried explaining to my stomach that this is entirely unnecessary: I've never once, not even when I was in college and more broke than the E.U., done any actual starving.

Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense layers of rhythms one upon the other.

I refuse to put make-up on just because the paparazzi are on my doorstep. I find it morally wrong.

I listened to pretty much anything that I could really feel, where I felt like the artist had to write those songs, where you can feel their soul and the pain and the happiness and love and everything.

So, all levels of government should be working on tax relief. That's important.

Nothing fun in life is easy.

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

It is customary for the writer to sneer that Hollywood has traduced their book. Well, I adore my film.

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

I cannot fail to call the congregation to worship God, to listen to his Word, to offer themselves to God.

Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.

I spent the afternoon of Sunday 9 July, 2006 in Berlin sleeping and playing the PlayStation. In the evening, I went out and won the World Cup.

You can set up whatever negotiations or structure you want, but until the Palestinians are willing to accept the fact, as the majority of Israelis do, that there should be two states between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, we won't have peace.

If you think about it, I was at college, and then three months later, I was a massive pop star. It's stress-making, especially when you're a bit of an oddball as I was, the black sheep left to your own devices, and then suddenly everyone's interested in you.

The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.

I'm not usually the guy who has people hiding in his bushes and saying, 'Will you love me forever and ever?'