If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative.
Oh my God, I don't think you can say anyone looks forward to controversy.
Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.
There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.
I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy.
There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.
Paparazzi will try to get the most controversial picture of you in a compromising position because that's how they're going to sell it.
'Coronation Street' was my first job, Zoe was a controversial character, and I wasn't used to everyone looking at me.
Her eyes are brown like the morning sand breaking in a new day.
I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and invite all this controversy just to be punk rock.
I think the point of art is to be controversial in a lot of ways. It's to cause conversations, and it's to get people excited about and talking about the things that the films are about.
Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art.
The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue.
The mainland Chinese tend to take a Chinese mainland point of view on controversial issues, and the Taiwanese take another the Taiwanese viewpoint.
Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.
An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.
Ninety-eight percent of the things that come out of my mouth are intended to be harmless or even charming. They're not ever intended to be offensive or controversial.
Now that I exist in the mainstream majority, I'm not really so controversial any more, am I? Not really news.
Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?
