Quotes About Author

Ray Sefo is a former K-1 guy that I've always respected. He knows how to take care of athletes.

Politics will take care of itself. I'm interested in people who are involved in the situations that politicians create. Politics is taken care of by politicians - they're not filmmakers.

I'm not one of the guys in the league for the fame. I'm here so I can take of my family, my mom, my friends and take care of myself.

I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.

I think Russell Brand's books should be criticised for being rubbish - but it is true that there's a professional class of opinion-former who has a financial interest in their job not being taken away.

It's good that people have been surprised at the direction Broadchurch' has taken. That's what you want, to keep people guessing.

I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis.

'Taken' is a really difficult project because it was a big surprise for everybody.

The detailing on the sets of 'Gandhi' was very minute. There was immense discipline and nothing was taken for granted.

Net neutrality isn't a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.

As I found at QPR, a club in the process of a takeover is paralysed.

I have a very active social life. It may look glamorous, and it is, but it also takes an enormous amount of time.

I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!

If you're intimate with a mind as powerful as that of Ellen Willis, it takes you a long time to separate yourself from her ideas. She had an extremely powerful mind.

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.

I'm very excited about taking over the reins on Vampirella. I've really been enjoying myself so far.

Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

I think 'The Handmaid's Tale' always had that power since it was written over 30 years ago. This extraordinary piece of feminist literature had its fan base then, but TV has given it an enormous reach.

If my tale has to revolve around a protagonist and there is action around him, I can only imagine him to be someone from the police or the Army.

'Sag Harbor' brought me a new readership - it's a coming of age tale about growing up in the '80s.

'Pride and Prejudice' is often compared to 'Cinderella,' but Jane Austen's real 'Cinderella' tale is 'Mansfield Park.'

The earliest depiction of libertarian eugenics may have appeared in a science fiction novel, Robert Heinlein's 1942 tale 'Beyond This Horizon.'

When I start a new novel, I often write 'test chapters' in different tenses and from different points of view in order to figure out which is best to tell the tale.