3 December 2020 John le Carre But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it’s the writer or the spy.
3 December 2020 Dennis Miller I’m a comedian, for God’s sake. Viewers shouldn’t trust me. And you know what? They’re hip enough to know they shouldn’t trust me. I’m just doing stand-up comedy.
3 December 2020 Carly Simon I remember being onstage once when I didn’t have fear: I got so scared I didn’t have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.
3 December 2020 Rick Perry But it wasn’t until I graduated from Texas A & M University and joined the United States Air Force, flying C-130’s all around the globe, that I truly appreciated the blessings of freedom.
3 December 2020 Doris Lessing I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that ‘nothing succeeds like success.’
3 December 2020 Bryan Adams I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon Young people are fitter to invent than to judge fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
3 December 2020 James Buchan To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you’re better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature – and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.
3 December 2020 Gerard Butler I knew I’d just done one of the most amazing things that I will ever get a chance to do. Just to be part of a musical that’s not your background and to pull it off and to think that we’ve done something that’s really special.
3 December 2020 George Andrew Olah My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.
3 December 2020 Giacomo Casanova I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
3 December 2020 Lev Grossman Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they’re made, they never seem quite as sacred again.
3 December 2020 Jet Li Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the ’70s.
3 December 2020 Kjell Magne Bondevik Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.
3 December 2020 Ray Bradbury We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
3 December 2020 June Jordan But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.
3 December 2020 Berenice Bejo Right now I’m the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there’s not going to be any other silent movies.
3 December 2020 Julie Andrews Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways – water in general, water sounds – there’s music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls tumbling, gushing.
3 December 2020 Vin Diesel The thing that stood out above and beyond all the experiences was this relationship with the nine-month-old baby. On weekends, I’d be thinking about going back to set on Monday just to see the baby.
