The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

Just to be working again as an actress and possibly doing TV would just be great. It's not about how big the role is.

Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth.

The Republicans may be better off without an agenda. They don't scare people.

There are so many tough opponents out there and tough competitors so I've never liked to look ahead.

People don't dislike change, they dislike being changed.

I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade.

I get it now. I have to make good on my promise. To let her go. To really let her go. To let us both go.

I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has to something move over that and somehow become personal to the director.

When conventional tactics are altered unexpectedly according to the situation, they take on the element of surprise and increase in strategic value .

They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, / They brought me bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed.