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I question whether any Turk, of all that have entered the Paradise of Opium-eaters, can have had half the pleasure I had. But, indeed, I hounour the barbarians too much by supposing them capable of any pleasures approaching to the intellectual ones of an Englishman.

Treason is an easy word to speak. A traitor is one who fights and loses. Washington was a traitor to George III.

Yet Orwell never fit into the BBC. At about the same time, he wrote in his diary, "Its atmosphere is something between a girls' school and a lunatic asylum

I like naughty boys. I was married to David Bailey, who was one of the naughtiest. I like real men, and I like masculinity.

She can be Mary Poppins but she can also be - I would never use the word 'crude' in the same sentence as Julie Andrews because she is so fine and beautiful - but she can be naughty and she doesn't mind a good joke.

Ian Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence.

I find a lot of feminist reading quite confusing and that often there's a set of rules, and people will be like, 'Oh, this person isn't a true feminist because they don't embody this one thing,' and I don't know, often it can be a gray area, and it can be a hard thing to navigate.

But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.

I just think it would be super cheesy for this Navy SEAL to start singing.

And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering.

When I heard about the great work that the NSW Family Foundation is doing to support the families of Navy Seals, I knew I wanted to support that.

My father was in the navy and so while he was deployed soon after I was born we moved to Australia.

No president has come near to rivaling Lincoln as a writer.

I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.

The idea of building a Near Eastern house in Honolulu must seem fantastic to many.

Virgil Flowers fishes in the St. Croix where I fish for muskies near my house.

I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford.

I shot Footloose nearby, and we used to hike. Very fond memories.

I've seen nearly every Encores! show. I love the second acts so much because you just see desperation and inspiration in equal measure.

I went to Iceland in 1861 and went over nearly every bit of the ground made famous by the adventures of Grettir.

I love books, and I love to read, and I had ideas for books that I thought would be neat to read.

I've always enjoyed working with kids whether it be hockey school, things like that, and I just thought it would kind of be neat to start there with a book for kids.

Nebraska and Indiana were really the only Division One schools that expressed any interest in me.

I got all sorts of great Nebraska jokes.