Category: people

“I feel a weight from my shoulders. In the first part of life, you accumulate things. In the second part of life, you get rid of it.”

Speaking at the national conference of the co-ruling Conservative Party, the movie star claimed that he personally warned the party’s no. 2 man against hiring now-disgraced former News Corp. exec Andy Coulson. Grant then publicly demanded an explanation from Prime Minister David Cameron himself.

“I actually prefer the purity of a part that’s written for a man, because I find that when it’s written for a woman – usually by a man – it will always have some stupid breakdown scene, or some stupid thing that would never really happen.”

“You really can’t live inside the head of another human being long enough in the short story. … When you start a novel, part of the point is to forget where it began. A novel imitates the flow of time. So, 75 pages into a novel, you can’t remember where it began. And that’s the point: Just like in your life, you can’t remember where it began.”

“[He] transformed the company his father founded in 1923 into an international leader in market research, helping to make its name synonymous with television ratings.”

“For the first time in my life, I am sending a letter to the editor of a newspaper, because your music critic Anne Midgette has crossed the line between reasonably objective criticism and what appears to be open animosity.”

“[His] portrayal of childlike suitors, muddled husbands, English eccentrics, pirate chiefs and Shakespearean rustics made him one of British ballet’s most beloved stars … [He] also played an influential role in international ballet … [serving] as artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada from 1976 to 1983.”

“[She] immortalised a fictional spy often referred to as the ‘Soviet James Bond’; in fact, Maxim Isayev had more in common with the screen depictions of John le Carré’s quick-witted George Smiley than Ian Fleming’s explosive hero.”

“I refuse to lie to children. I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.”

“Kevin Prihod said the firing was prompted by his refusal to close Design & Exhibits, the Science Center’s $4.5 million subsidiary business in Ferndale that builds exhibits and has been the primary symbol of the entrepreneurial business model that Prihod had championed for the center.”