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Quotes by British Authors
"My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England."
"The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them."
"Triumphing over great difficulties can lead to great happiness."
"No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament."
"All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult."
"I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination."
"I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest."
"It is a weird thing, because most people tend to get more conservative as they get older, but I find myself going the opposite way. I am sure that by the end I will be selling Marxist pamphlets on the Holloway Road."
"And certainly don't get caught by the press having too much to drink, you now, that sort of thing."
"It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do."
"It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest."
"We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization."
"I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress."
"I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. A sum can be put right: but only by going back til you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on. Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' --or else not."
"I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others."
"One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest."
"To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude."
"I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity."
"There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing."
"Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe."
"But let's be clear. We're talking about a country where there's no opposition. As leader he can ignore Parliament and - sorry that's Tony Blair isn't it? Um, so he doesn't even have to ask the country before he goes to war - sorry that's still Tony Blair."
"I suppose directing on set is the most fun because it's a good crack and you feel you're on the battlefield whereas writing is a fairly solitary undertaking."
"All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much."
"Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes."
"I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men."
"When I came back to Britain, I realized that I was no longer a very young woman. I had to meet my new consciousness, my new age, with roles that reflected it somewhat."
"We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely."
"There will be masses available all day long. Confession available all day long."
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