Inspiration is the impact of a fact on a well-prepared mind
I admire so many women, it's hard to choose, but I've always loved Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot, and Mia Farrow.
One of my favourite messages about The Pirate Fairy is that the story is about appreciating your own talents.
Some of the things people have said about me, well, they're unbelievable
If my legs are showing, the makeup artist adds a tiny amount of foundation to body lotion and rubs it in.
If Mad Men had taken place in the '90s it would have been just as believable. But the fact is that was the perfect storm and with the fashion and the sets and the writing and the actors it just all made sense and it just was one of those things that you can't explain.
In the beginning, it was odd to have so much attention brought to my body type. I thought, 'Uh-oh, brace yourself. ' But everyone has been so positive. During the first season, a woman came up to me at dinner and said, 'I just want to thank you u2014 watching you has made me proud of my body. ' I thought, What an amazing thing for someone to say! To make anyone feel good about themselves makes me feel good.
It does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state. . . it means the end of a thousand years of history.
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.
I have a really hard time watching my sister act in anything but especially anything where it's a strong emotion. Whether she's crying or she's angry or she's - whatever emotion she's feeling I actually think that she's feeling it and I want to hug her and make it all better.
I think of what's happening in Detroit as part of something that's much bigger. Most people think of the decline of the city as having to do with African-Americans and being in debt, and all the issues like crime and bad housing. But what happened is that when globalization took place, following World War II, Detroit's role as the center and the symbol of industrialization was destroyed. It wasn't because we had black citizens mainly or a black mayor; it was because the world was changing.