L.A. Paul Quotes
I resent almost all of the time I spend in front of the television, but I find 'The Only Way Is Essex' absolutely riveting.
The power of telly is surprising. If you're in a six-part series, you're famous while it's on - people point in the street. Two weeks later it all goes back to normal.
Concerning anti-Christian Bigotry, the mass media in our nation relentlessly attack anything that even remotely champions morality or Judeo-Christian values.
When you give away large sums of money, you can cause as much damage as you may do good.
College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.
When I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, there was a bunch of guys selling fresh oysters and I'd eat ten daily - marvellous.
The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear.
I think having an outsider's viewpoint is interesting and good, especially for a comedian.
When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.
If one's patriotism is merely instinctive it is irrational and irresponsible, and consequently a danger to one's country.
The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats.
A woman can tell me about her having a baby, but I'll never know what it is to have a baby.
There's endless possibilities to taking music into the future by using music that actually was 100 years old.
Pop music can play a large part in the way numerous young people determine their right to desire and their need to question.
There's different ways of presenting a pop group to the world. It doesn't have to be the same old poses.
Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.
Through pop music ideas, energies and resources can emerge that can help the audience release themselves from the unrelieving confinements of environment.
I always thought that pop groups were going to be made up in the 21st century. It wouldn't be four musicians, as such. Especially in the online world, with the worlds that are opening up.
It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything like that.
What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry
Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.
There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see.
Last year I was a judge for a prize in England, the T.S. Eliot Prize, so I read everything that was published in England last year.
I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987
I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.
I won't go up in a plane, but if a play crashes, I'll jump into the next one that comes along and take it up for a spin.
Sometimes the reason we do not see the answer is that we are looking too closely at the question.
The USA should invade the USA and win the hearts and minds of the population by building roads, bridges and putting locals to work.
