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It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.

I really like England. I like the lifestyle and the country. The history. The culture, which London is full of. The country pursuits.

The aim of any writer, even a fantasy writer, is the pursuit of truth.

Especially among journalists, politics is not a pursuit that's held in high esteem. We tend to be cynical about it - but I actually believe in democracy.

The pursuit of an extreme Brexit cannot come at the cost of peace in Northern Ireland.

Justice Scalia was usually particularly challenging to me at oral argument, but I so respected his intellect and commitment to the pursuit of truth.

I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.

I don't purposely push the boundaries... I think if you pay attention to a story, it will have exactly as much 'difficult material' as it needs, and nobody will complain about it because you've earnt it.

I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.

Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

Janeane Garofalo ended up, in a sense, being pushed by the media into becoming a pundit.

Would I get into politics? I'll just say what I tell people when they ask me this: Pray that everyday citizens like me aren't pushed to that corner.

Before Lil B, hip-hop and music in general was in a different space. Lil B really just pushed this independence.

Sunil Dutt asked me, rather pushed me, to join politics.

'Government gets things right' does not encourage sales. 'Government makes another blunder' does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.

Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.

I'm always pushing back against the last thing I did in some way, and some of that is restlessness and a sense of limited time.

When you look at someone like Sacha Baron Cohen, you have to really respect the boundaries he is pushing as Bruno or Borat.

My plays are always pushing towards cinema anyway. They're down and dirty, real and more fun.

Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.

Mostly what I try to do is build emotion. Only I'd prefer not to do it by telling you about emotion but by pushing that emotion down.

I don't need a security guy pushing my fans around.

We must start pushing back against this politically correct nonsense that's destroying our society and culture.

The immigration policies that Donald Trump and the Republicans are pushing are downright hateful and must be stopped.