Jesus Christ never preached there should be celibate priests. The only reason the church has this is because it's a mechanism of power and control. You can control priests who are celibate.
The power of a handwritten letter is greater than ever. It's personal and deliberate and means more than an e-mail or text ever will. It has a unique scent. It requires deciphering. But, most important, it's flawed.
After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through.
If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
I think there's a part of us that fantasizes about having some sort of super power. If I could have one, it would definitely be teleportation!
In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities.
..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.
There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.
If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.
I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime.
Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.
I know it's very 'old media' of me to admit this, but I am often unnerved by the lack of civility on the Web.
I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.
A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.
I was told I would become nothing. Now I am showing people how big nothing is.
We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see what this mass audience is really capable of.
I'm doing another Churchill. I did a Churchill for HBO and that was up to 1939 and there's talk of the war years. They were going to do it this fall, but the script wasn't going to be ready.
We hear so much about weapons of mass destruction. But nine out of 10 war victims are killed by guns. It's the AK-47 that's a weapon of mass destruction.
We made connections between the monsters created by war and the monsters he created, the typical outcast that Whale was attracted to, and the monster in himself, that's inside all of us.
