Gardening transcends everything that otherwise divides us.
I am officially a doctor, and believe it or not, I can save lives and tune certain instruments and can beat peasants with a stick.
I've always saved. I believe in keeping money back for a rainy day and living within my means. I don't buy expensive clothes; I have a 10-year-old car I'm hoping to replace when a big job comes in. I suppose when we do go on family holidays, I am quite happy to spend when we are there.
My mum thought my TV and film addiction was laziness. If you're an immigrant, you know you'll never be an accepted part of society, but you hope your children will be, and you try to make them essential to the community in a practical way - being a doctor or a lawyer. Acting was beyond their comprehension.
Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he'd served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comic timing.
Alan Alda and his wife Arlene are two of the most life-affirming people I've ever met. He espoused equal rights for women while producing, writing, acting in and directing M*A*S*H; he used to commute between the set and home because he didn't want to disrupt his kids' schooling.
I have issues with inheritance tax, particularly coming from a migrant family. My dad has worked incredibly hard all his life, so it seems odd to me that someone who has gone through that experience and has managed to save then gets taxed for dying.
Our first and immutable commitment must be to the security of Israel, our only true ally in the Middle East and the only democracy
It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.
Resurrection means bodily life after ‘life after death,’ or, if you prefer, bodily life after the state of ‘death’
Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera.