I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.
Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known.
I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.
That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.
If you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to the library and read newspaper clippings of someone like Muhammad Ali every day, then it might giver you some understanding of the man.
History is written by winners.
But then, as far as I know, as far as I've studied or heard or picked up, it seems that this type of thing is a curse against mankind.
Never for a moment believe that the great body of the citizens of any State or States can deliberately intend to do wrong. They may, under the influence of temporary excitement or misguided opinions, commit mistakes; they may be misled for a time by the suggestions of self-interest; but in a community so enlightened and patriotic as the people of the United States argument will soon make them sensible of their errors, and when convinced they will be ready to repair them.
I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Ninety percent of my roles, I've had to fight for. It's only a really small percentage of people who get handed roles. But that can be quite scary. The good thing about auditioning is that you get to test yourself and see if you can play this character - you're also auditioning yourself. I enjoy seeing what the chemistry is between the people you might be working with.