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Then she thought she was making a drama of the situation. She always did. Vera could never be part of a story without playing a leading role; this time the role was that of the heartless friend.

My memory's not so good. I blame the ECT but it's probably just age.

She was tall, angular, striking in a Glenda Jackson sort of way.

Oh, a sense of humour,' Vera said. 'I do like a sense of humour in a villain.

However, he never understood why anyone would want to separate science, which is just a way of searching for what is true, from what we hold sacred, which are those truths that inspire love and awe.

We have, in this country, this Puritan, hypocritical, nonrealistic view of sex that is entirely different than the view, for instance, in Western Europe.

The most terrifying thing for most everybody in the whole Western World is to take responsibility for your own life and to experience real freedom.

The message, 'stop Islam, defend freedom,' is a message that's not only important for the Netherlands but for the whole free Western world.

When I was putting the 'Best of Hollywood' book together, I sat down and added up just the list of Westerns I've done, and it came to well over 200.

Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.

I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride.

I've always been a fan of Westerns, but my favorite kind of Westerns mostly were Sam Peckinpah's Westerns, and they mainly took place in the West that was changing.

Westerns are cool, man. I'm big on Westerns. I just love the grittiness.

I haven't read a lot of Westerns. But I wrote a Western. The influences were all cinematic.

'The Virginian' has a very important romantic story line that you don't find in a lot of Westerns... At the heart of the story is quite a bit of pain and a sense of loss.

I used to love American Westerns, growing up in Germany.

I love Westerns, and 'Back To The Future III' is one of my favorite movies.

I have always loved westerns... supernatural westerns in particular. One of my first professional short story sales was a horror/western story. It wasn't so great, though, so I'm glad the magazine folded before it saw print.

Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.

I like fiction set in the South, and I'm a fan of literary westerns.

On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.

I've been breeding Dobies for years. Almost won the breed in Westminster at one time.

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

We will never vote for the renewal of Trident; that's a decision which will fall to be made in the next Westminster parliament. We will never vote for that.