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We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down.

It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.

Everybody hangs out with everybody, which is very strange for a cast this large and this young. We're all cool and down to earth and not caught up in this maniacal business at all... . Everybody really, really likes everybody else.

With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.

I burned down our house, and that put a strain on our family.

I always want to bring emotion across in a straightforward way. I don't want to get histrionic when I'm singing. For me that's just not interesting; it goes too far down one road.

I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off.

Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.

And there goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class.

Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.

I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

Having had that experience... I think, what modern culture wants to see is the relationship with the woman. I don't think you can tell a story on film nowadays where the woman simply is there for the man when he decides to settle down.

When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.

My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!' Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn't humiliating, not at all.

But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.

It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance.

I don't think I'd want to sit down and listen to people's stories all day long.

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

I can do the equivalent of 150 miles per hour and not get stopped. I could quite happily pursue people down the motorway in my helicopter.

I went down and played with Magic Johnson at his all-star game in Atlanta. I remember Magic stopped the game and said, 'We need you here with us in L.A.'

They wanted to jump on their own bandwagon. Bobby Charlton had never made it as a manager. Bobby Moore hadn't either. I think they never stopped trying to put me in the same category. That was the road they went down with me.

Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.

To stop smoking was actually really easy because I had already started to cut down. My husband is asthmatic, and he just can't for the life of him imagine why anybody would put smoke in their mouth, so he really helped me to start cutting down.

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properly pulled her chair away. At that moment I asked her a question and she sat down again, except there was no chair. Everyone, including the Queen, laughed and laughed.

A fat stomach sticks out too far. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you.

In the 1920s you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks.