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Monetary policy is one of the most difficult topics in economics. But also, I believe, a topic of absolutely crucial importance for our prosperity.

When an author creates a town in her novels, she spends a great deal of time visualizing the streets and buildings, landmarks and topography. And while the town becomes real in her imagination, it's rare for an author to see the place she's created actually spring to life.

You're a hundred percent correct about our show being tops in quality.

Discipline tops my list of most-hated things, followed closely by portobello mushrooms.

My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest.

The anti-European Tories were a fringe group - until they took over their whole party.

My nighttime look is exactly like my daytime look - like I'm going to a super fancy funeral. I guess it would be considered extreme to most people, but I like it that way. The idea of conventional beauty isn't attractive to me... that's why, when I was growing up, I felt kind of torn about makeup.

I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging.

I like Toronto, it's nice.

What's fun about shooting exteriors on the street in Toronto is that there are cable cars.

I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.

Raffi Cavoukian was born in Cairo in 1948 and moved with his Armenian parents to Toronto when he was 10.

I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest.

I think I'll always base myself out of Toronto. I don't have any plans to move to L.A.

I'm honored with the success of 'Omerta' at the Toronto Film Festival.

I think in Toronto my job was to score just based on the system that we had. We played a lot of iso basketball - a lot of one-on-one basketball.

To be honest, it's not really hard to run a torrent site, or set one up.

'A Death in the Gunj' is set in 1979 and we had to mute a joke that referred to Indira Gandhi. The censors also wouldn't allow the tortoise that some of the characters talk about to be called Kalidas because it's the name of a respected poet.

To a lot of us, literature's eternal significance had seemed beyond arguing - like, say, the illegality of government-sponsored torture.

Make no mistake: conversion therapy is not about 'praying away the gay.' It's an emotional torture against our most innocent citizens: our children.

My 70 days of torture began in Camp India. The camps in Gitmo are named by letters. A is for Alpha, B for Beta, C for Charlie and so on. I is for India. It is a torture block.

I so respect Sen. McCain's service to this country, and no one certainly knows more about torture than he does, and so I recognize that.

By 2003, if you didn't understand that the United States was inflicting torture on those deemed enemy combatants, you weren't paying much attention.

Of course, no one doubts McCain's personal tenacity, from braving torture to overcoming cancer. Yet plenty of nonpartisan observers doubt his credibility.