In the late 1980s the amount of German films was down to four or five percent of the market, and the remaining 95 percent were American. It is now 20 to 30 percent German productions.
The tremendous honour of the Nobel Prize is of the strongest incentive to me in my work, while the amount of the Prize will greatly simplify my task and provide me with much valuable help in my work.
Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to 'work' in the real world. Conservatives of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush years have a fair amount to be proud of.
I come from a very critical culture. You know the Scots. They're always saying: 'Oh, no. It will never work. You'll never amount to anything. You've got to know your place in the world.'
When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend, or a week, I'd do unbelievable amounts of work.
My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.
I would never say one was more important or more gratifying than the next because there's a tremendous amount of work, as you know, that goes into winning a cup.
I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it.
When the war ends, it will be found that there was an equal amount of 'thuggery' practiced on both sides, that terrible things were done to force the final victory.
In the twelve months immediately preceding the outbreak; of war, the quantity of spirits, both domestic and imported released for sale in Canada, amounted to over three and a half million proof gallons.
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.
We make ourselves large or small, here or there, in our empathies.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Safety is largely an illusion, and panic knows this.
New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.
Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
In still moments by the sea life seems large-drawn and simple. It is there we can see into ourselves.
I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.
A large percentage of the staff plays both online and here at the Casinos.
I was really tired of words like 'plus size,' 'round' and 'large.' I thought, 'Come on, we're fat.'
