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Sometimes directors will hire you and say, 'Oh, we love your work.' And then they start to tell you how to do it. I say, 'Hey, man, back off. You hired me to do it. Let me do it.'

I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated.

My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!

I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college.

When we came off the tour for the last album, we started on this one. We've just been chipping away at it. We're not in that much of a hurry, because when we release a Blur album, that's a three year promotion and touring cycle.

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people.

I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test?

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

Most Sundays, with the exception of football Sundays, I work, because I don't take days off as long as I'm working on something that's supposed to be all in the same mood.

We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do.

When you step on the treadmill, make a commitment. Do, say, 3 miles a day. And don't get off until you finish. It doesn't matter what speed you're going. Just don't get off.

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line... We're just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.

Oh, come off it, I've only directed three plays for the RSC.

I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don't, it's like telling a dirty joke and leaving out the punch line.

Look at where Jesus went to pick people. He didn't go to the colleges; he got guys off the fishing docks.

I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.

Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.

I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.

Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.

I am not involved in any 'issues' because it's too sensitive for me - or my wife - to get involved. Every time we express an opinion it becomes a whole thing in itself. And the whole purpose of living in the countryside was to get away from hundreds of people. My wife fell off a horse, and suddenly there are hundreds of people around.

When I do a take, I very often try things that I haven't planned to try to see if I can pull it off.

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.

I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.