3 December 2020 Dean Koontz I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence – I find that offensive. I think that’s potentially damaging to society.
3 December 2020 Wendy Liebman I don’t think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students – they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.
3 December 2020 William Devane David was the kind of guy who was totally supportive of the actors and instructed the writing staff to trust the actor’s instincts, since after all, it’s the actors playing the character.
3 December 2020 Felix Mendelssohn These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.
3 December 2020 Mitch Hedberg Rice is great if you’re really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.
3 December 2020 Lyndon B. Johnson I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.
3 December 2020 Michelle Trachtenberg I plays Joe’s best friend. I am the only one he has ever been able to trust in his life, so I help him understand what happened to him when he was younger.
3 December 2020 Joe E. Lewis I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.
3 December 2020 Rick Mercer I get to do the most amazing things. We call it Host in Peril quite often, because people love to see me risk my life or be in danger.
3 December 2020 Muhammad Yunus But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.
3 December 2020 James Russell Lowell On one issue at least, men and women agree they both distrust women.
3 December 2020 Tim Roth You read a script and its based on ‘Reservoir Dogs’ and ‘Pulp Fiction’, and it goes right in the bin.
3 December 2020 Vaclav Havel The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
3 December 2020 Candice Swanepoel I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.
3 December 2020 Charles Dickens Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
3 December 2020 Julie Walters Everyone comes up to me saying, ‘Cooee, Julie! Hello!’ as if I know them. Of course I don’t bloody know them. Am I flummoxed by it? Sometimes. I think, ‘Ooh, love, go easy.’ For a time, I did feel this pressure that I had to be funny, but it passes.
3 December 2020 Erwin Chargaff Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question ‘How?’ but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question ‘Why?’
3 December 2020 Tony Kushner In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.
3 December 2020 George Byron I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
3 December 2020 William Wordsworth When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.
3 December 2020 Ringo Starr First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I’m other things… But I didn’t play drums to make money.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.
