If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.
I think the East India Company represents what we would think of as a very modern approach to the world where everything was counted, every penny was counted.
East India Company were a huge multinational that had the added impetus that they felt they were spreading Christian civilization around the world - so they were pretty free to do anything they wanted.
There was an unbelievable amount of animosity in that war [for America Independence] which people have forgotten, which was still around 50 years later.
I think certain periods of history don't get dealt with because I think historians, and it's their job, but they look back and look for patterns. They look for sequences and they look for reasons, and certain periods of history don't fit with the general pattern of 1500 to the 20th century, during which there's the creation of the United States. At this time of 1814, two nations who would eventually become close allies were at war with each other, so it doesn't quite fit.
I've spent three hours with Snoop Dogg, talking about how he loved [Peaky Blinders series]. And David Bowie loved it. The late Leonard Cohen was a fan. It struck a chord with various people that I didn't think it would.
Snoop [Dog] said [Peaky Blinders] reminded him of how he got involved with gang culture. It's always fantastically flattering when I see people dress like that and take on the look.
My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.
An army's effectiveness depends on its size, training, experience, and morale, and morale is worth more than any of the other factors combined.
I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point.
The guy was infected with bird flu because he took a sick chicken, slaughtered it and and then ate it.