We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other peoples religion, and we have a long tradition of that.
But the tune ends too soon for us all
I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
It's nice to be recognized, but it's not great to have it too conspicuously recognized, if you see what I mean. Gold records on the wall, or titles after your name, it's just not something. . . I don't feel that great about it.
Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.
Cafe society is as old as the hills. Starbucks and its imitators are the coffee face of the new man in a hurry.
Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.
When they called me with the Nobel call from Secretary General of the Swedish Academy it was twenty minutes to six and he said well that was well hope I'm not disturbing you but I am the Secretary General of the Swedish Academy. Of course you can imagine I was frozen in time when he said that but then he made a very famous statement, something to the effect that this is the last 20 minutes of peace of your life.
I cry all the time. It's more like when didn't you cry. My friends are like, 'Oh God, she's sobbing again. ' I cry if I'm happy, sad, normal. . . What really gets me is when I read a sad story about a child in the paper, especially at the moment with my hormones raging.
Social media really grew up.
I grew up, in my childhood, with some of the greatest women performers, on stage and on screen, and even my family - my mother and my sisters. So I was very busy watching women, as a child! I have a lot of memories of great women performers