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And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary.

I realized there was something I didn't quite like in myself that I didn't want to hear about.

Football management is such a pressurised thing - horseracing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job.

I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.

My son Wesley has just turned 13. He was 12 during the recording of this record and he is quite a drummer already and has been studying drums since he was four, but he's also very interested in African percussion and studies percussion.

I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.

I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.

We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.

To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.

With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.

We've managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we've never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren't commercial enough.

Every President I think I've ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn't quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.

I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound affects the unconscious brain.

I confess it, I love the camera. When it's not on me, I'm not quite alive.

I was always a big fan of the books and over the years I've become quite attached to Ron and we've meshed into the same person, really.

I really love clothes, but I think I have a style of my own which is quite eclectic.

You never want to be the grumpy guy, although I do have quite a grumpy face.

We're not going to pay attention to the silliness and the petty comments. And quite frankly, women have joined me in this effort, and so it's not about appearances. It's about effectiveness.

Quite a few movies are starting to film in Florida.

I'm friends with Carla Olsen and she's doing a lot of producing these days. She's getting quite a little collection of records that she's produced. She's real busy.

It's quite hard when you do fail and you don't achieve what you want to achieve.

The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films were going to be quite important, and the work felt meaningful.

There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery.

When I was young, I used to hear people say, 'He's a golden boy. Look at that guy. Can you imagine what he's going to be like when he grows up?' Well, I unfortunately bought into that. And I hadn't even found myself. Quite honestly, I was running from myself. But I knew how to work Top 40 radio.

We're all quite vulnerable human beings really.

I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.