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To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.

Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that.

I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it.

My mother was born on a tiny farm in County Mayo. She was meant to stay at home and look after the farm while her brother and sister got an education. However, she came to England on a visit and never went back.

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.

The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.

I've got scarves and boots from' 1970 that I still wear.

If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.

I was amazed at the support that I got when I was in there. And when I came out people knew that I was back on track. I was interested in working again.

I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.

And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.

My kids and I make pasta three days a week now. It's not even so much about the eating of it; they just like the process. Benno is the stuffer, and Leo is the catcher. They've got their jobs down.

You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?

I've got so many weaknesses.

I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.

Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.

And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

That's the way blacks have been encouraged to think: that we got to stick together. You've got a situation today where if a black person says he thinks O.J. Simpson's guilty, other blacks will cut their eyes at him and say, 'You ought to go somewhere and sit down and shut up.'

I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.

I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit.

I loved the Cure and Bauhaus and the Smiths. The people in my town weren't privy to that kind of music and I got abused. I discovered the microphone to get out some of that angst.

I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there.