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You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I think.

Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman - her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.

I don't know if my films are about women in a kind of frolicking - here's a grab bag of women's issues. They are about women of substance with very particular stories.

Although Senate Bill 1556 has received attention for its perceived focus, my job is to look at the actual substance of the legislation.

In confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with substance.

There was always talk that the Horrors didn't have any substance but I think they're proving people wrong.

Well the appeals happening because we believe the certification process uh, hasn't worked out the way it should, that there hasn't been substantial evidence to support their certification.

I didn't study writing. I didn't write anything substantial until I got to California.

I know that I do have influence over the people who watch me, and it's quite a pressure. I have to stay positive, and while I would never use the words 'role model', I am mindful of the responsibilities that come with a substantial viewership.

There is a substantial correlation between an election year and how the market finishes.

If there is one thing that I take pride in, it is the fact that I never, ever make a charge without offering a substantial amount of support for it. You may ultimately end up not agreeing with me, but you will have to concede that I offered much evidence in support of my position, something that people frequently do not do.

I took my time to learn the craft and procedure. I wanted to do some substantial work first in cinema.

The fact is, LFC is going to require substantial investment, as did the Red Sox.

I wish I could help in a more substantial way, the football in India in a more global, national way.

'Heartless' is a rare commercial film where I have a substantial role.

Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable.

I will focus on being substantive and I will focus on Barack Obama.

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

Sometimes I was in school plays, but only when the kid they'd originally picked got sick and they asked me to substitute.

Private sector cannot substitute the role of the government in primary education.

All of Wes Anderson's films are confections, memoirs created in cinematic snow globes, with the subtext that memory is the most extraordinary confection of all.

I think the benefit of being a writer is that I'm looking for the subtext on the page, because all good writing has subtext. And as a writer, you look at the big scope of things, the big story, rather than just your individual story line, because I think it's important to know what you're in and how you fit into it.

'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged plot.

The fact I have an education forms my lyrical style, I'm sure. I studied the social sciences, history, stuff like that. I have an interest in politics, which maybe works its way into the songs in small, subtle ways.