Quotes About Author

I was in the debating society at school, I was the president of the Oxford Union, and then I became an MP in the Nineties.

I'd fought in the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, having left Oxford to do so.

I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939.

I was a graduate student at Oxford when I discovered Georgiana.

Oxygen was a good fit of values, and I liked the idea of being able to communicate with women.

My personal view of the anarch-capitalists is that it's an oxymoron.

I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.

But despite this breathtaking pace, I believe in the capacity of our democracy to meet these challenges.

I always feel on film you have to earn a ballad, because it's a different kind of pace.

I thought it would be a fun change of pace to do a show about a really sad, depressed character.

I ended up in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific, operating out of Ayuka field in Hawaii.

'South Pacific' has a definite heaviness that people don't realize. It's got a seriousness and a message.

We wanted it to be that you could go to the comic shop and read about the back story of 'Pacific Rim' and the drama inherent in it.

I'd like to go back in time and haunt Robert Louis Stevenson during his years in the South Pacific.

I'm from the East Coast, and so therefore, the Pacific Northwest forest is very exotic land to me.

In general, I don't really think too much about pacing, myself. You kind of look at each script and what each script demands.

I'm not the Hollywood type. I'm not going to pack up my bags and let me move to Hollywood and stuff like that.

The day leading up to the Royal Rumble was pretty routine. I got up early, went to the gym, got a good meal in and then packed my bags to head to the Alamodome.

My desperation for UKIP to do well meant that I really packed the diary and the day in a way that, frankly, wasn't very bright.

I'm not a Packers fan. I just like football. I do respect those guys. You respect great football. I'm a Cowboys fan, or I was a Cowboys fan. You just respect great football.

I love being a writer. I have a great life. I get up in the morning and pad around in my dressing gown and listen to Radio 4.

I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England.

Writing on the beach is not what it's cracked up to be. The sand blows, and you perspire, and the page gets all blotty and messed up, so I don't do that anymore.

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.