Quotes About Author

BRICS meetings are keenly watched world over, and our decisions have profound impact globally.

It was an extreme time, in a certain sense... I was totally and profoundly influenced by the revolutionary movements of the '60s and '70s.

Maybe it's because I was named for him, but I've always wanted to meet Nathaniel Hawthorne. It's oversimplifying, but all Hawthorne's short stories and novels are, in one way or another, about guilt. Something profoundly disturbing must have happened to him at an early age. I'd like to know what that was.

I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not.

I'm a big fan of David Attenborough, who I think is the most adventurous of the nature program presenters.

I don't try to sensationalize anybody. I'm not trying to entertain. I'm trying to give information and give access to me and tell about our program.

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.

Nudity, in the right way, can enhance a film or a TV program or a TV commercial. If it's done tastefully it can make it more of an interesting product.

A premium support program is different than a voucher program. They're just fundamentally different.

I fully support a national health care program for the U.S.

In 2009, I went to Cannes with a short film in the Kodak emerging program at the American Pavilion.

I'd love to present a popular science programme because it's something I feel very passionate about.

The BBC is in many ways wonderful, but it is not good at recognising when a programme has come to the end of its natural life.

I had done debate programmes before and quite often you go into them thinking: 'I might need to build some energy in the room.' 'On Question Time,' the reverse is true. A lot of the time, I am just trying to not have it turn into a slanging match.

'Bake Off' is one of my favourite programmes, so I was genuinely a little bit shocked and very excited when I was asked to take part.

I would love to be an historian. I'm a bit of a history geek and love books and programmes on the subject.

I love writing, and I love making arts programmes.

We're not programming to conservatives. We're just not eliminating their point of view.

A lot of my income has been derived from voicing Disney and family programming.

Coming from a programming background, I have a good sense of what's feasible and what's not feasible in a game.

The Violence Against Women Act is personal to me because I know the programs and services it funds are lifesaving.

A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.

We believe that, by the time that we leave office, it will be institutionalized, and these programs will be addressing the needs and curing the problem that we set out to do.

I have no preconceived notions of what SBA programs work or not.