When I was 20, my mother died and I went off the rails a little bit. I kinda had my slightly dark period.
'Game of Thrones' is taking dense novels and trying to shrink it all down to a slightly manageable series in the sense that there are so many characters and so many locations.
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
I've always loved the rustic, slightly worn style of Canvas and that element of an artisanal hand. It's so inherently chic.
I have a slightly bad back, which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.
I think there's a huge amount of magic on television, which is slightly vapid: there's no real meaning or message behind it; it is simply a trick.
I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.
Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.
My tutors at drama school commended and criticised my use of comedy in my acting for a long time at drama school. They said I had a tendency to somehow perform the most tragic of scenes in a slightly flippant way.
I'm a master of heels. I'm used to them. I'm tiny, so I wear them all the time. Apart from to the beach. That would be slightly psycho. I'm over the top, but not that much yet.
In terms of the pilot, you have to introduce a lot of characters in a very short period of time, and you have to paint with slightly broad brush strokes because you just need to give an audience an idea of who these people might be.
Linus: Smash and grab job, huh? Rusty: Slightly more complicated than that. Linus: Well, yeah.
I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city. The novels have an extremely tenuous relationship with the real world, since the hero is the city's Hell and ends up with a sidekick who is a demon.
I'm better with my hands, and I always loved the slightly romantic idea of starting with bits of wood and being able to create something to sit on, to eat from, to store your clothes in.
I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.
One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.
While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security.
I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul.
I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics - especially if you're there for a long time.
All reality TV shows are a triumph of voyeurism. They choose contestants who are ill-suited and slightly freakish.
