Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors.
Seven days king, seven days minister, slave for the rest of your life.
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.
The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.
I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.
For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.
Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.
You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.
A clown on a throne is still a clown. A king in rags is still a king.
The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.
Lizz Wright is my favourite singer. Her voice moves me and takes me to another place. She also grows her own food, and that inspires me.
At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.
I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.
Politics is its own world. It is a court and if the king's eye lights on you, you are a powerful figure. If the king's eye wanders elsewhere, you are out, whatever your title.
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