When you step away from doing something that you have always been doing and then you return to it, you have a different perspective. You get that desire and the will to strike at everything.
My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
I was directing before I started doing 'The IT Crowd.' It wasn't something that led on after acting I guess. I was sort of doing this stuff before acting.
How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.
Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing.
All my wire sculptures come from the same loop. And there's only one way to do it. The idea is to do it simply, and you end up with a shape.
Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, 'Do this, do that,' but it's my demon who provokes me.
I do not intend, we do not intend, that any party shall survive, if we can help it, that will lay the confiscating hand upon Americans in the interest of England or of Europe.
I didn't appear to need anyone: I could do it all myself. I could do everything. I was both halves: did that mean I was whole?
It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
I have been up too congress, and they do not seem to do anything except eat peanuts and chew tobacco while my army is starving.....
Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.
If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
The label doesn't do anything but put your record in the store, that's all they do. And tell you, you don't have a single... and tell you, it's not gonna sell... that's what the label does.
None of what Barack Obama is doing or wants to do to this country is anything the rest of the world hasn't seen before and already failed at.
Do not let go of your right to make your own decisions, because by doing so you are letting go of who you really are.
But how do you wait for heaven And who has that much time And how do you keep your feet on the ground When you know, that you were born, you were born to fly
Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
I'm fortunately not, like, typecast. I don't have to just do one kind of thing; I can do all kinds of things that reflect different parts of me.
I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.
When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off.
