Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.
The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.
I cannot be alone in being pretty nauseated by Red Nose Day, or at least its television manifestation. Do I think that wretchedly poor children in Africa should get food and life-saving drugs? Of course. Do I want to be hectored into contributing by celebrities who earn more in a 10-minute slot than many of these families get in a year? Nope.
I think the great thing about grandparents is seeing another home, realising that people you love can have different priorities, different diversions, different opinions and lead quite different lives from the ones you see every day, and that is immensely valuable.
When you visit a foreign city you are in it, but not of it, separated by a glass wall. Once, while a student, I was getting dressed in my ground-floor room when a family of Italians crossed the grass to watch, as if I were laid on for their amusement and instruction.
If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.
Most successful American politicians look well-fed on endorsements, campaign contributions and chicken dinners.
I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.
By helping others, we make ourselves better, and by helping others heal, we heal ourselves. I think we can do that on an individual level and a worldwide level. I hope people have a chance to give that a little bit of thought.
Omigod,' I said on a sudden flash of sleep-deprived insight. 'You're the big bad wolf. ' There are some similarities.
I knew that I needed to do something that I desperately loved. There was a period where I did question if it was acting because I knew that I would be making things hard on myself. I knew that there was going to be a little bit of a hullabaloo because of my dad being who he is and all that.