Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
Transforming a line like that makes it into a belly laugh instead of a laugh against us.
I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day.
Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it.
We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked.
I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.
This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped.
We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us.
I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue.
I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.
I am Tina Yothers and I'll never be anyone different.
Acting is definitely put at the back of my mind, if it's there at all right now. It's all entertainment.
When entertainment was begun, during the Depression, it was supposed to take people's minds off reality. People could sing, dance, act or do anything. It was the type of entertainment that was available.
'Top Chef' is a very smooth-running machine. All the people working there are incredibly professional and absolutely at the top of their game.
I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I've written at least one piece for them before firing me.
When I was writing my column, I would almost always be recognized when I was in a restaurant, even if I was reviewing it and had booked under a fake name, so free stuff would start coming out of the kitchen on a conveyer belt, fantastic wines would b...
Loyalty is my biggest thing.
I want to sing because I want to sing.
I absolutely refused to make out with the gorgeous male model.
Nobody who cooks does it with full hair and makeup in front of a TV camera.
I almost never make stuff out of cookbooks because they're either too complicated or there's an ingredient in there that I can't find.
