Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and read more

Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.

These are high-risk, high-reward [vaccines]. The chances of their success are remote, but if they do work, we would expect read more

These are high-risk, high-reward [vaccines]. The chances of their success are remote, but if they do work, we would expect them to be blockbusters if they produced enough to supply developed nations and undeveloped nations.

That was encouraging for me.

That was encouraging for me.

You cannot strike out in your first major-league at-bat.

You cannot strike out in your first major-league at-bat.

I like the vulnerability, the naked face. And then, of course, I hadn't done a contemporary story in 3 or read more

I like the vulnerability, the naked face. And then, of course, I hadn't done a contemporary story in 3 or 4 films, so that also interested me.

I didn't expect Taylor to get into the sixth. I thought we would get three or four innings out of read more

I didn't expect Taylor to get into the sixth. I thought we would get three or four innings out of him, but he was cruising for a while.

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a read more

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

We're like a family and there's a lot of teamwork to help each other here.

We're like a family and there's a lot of teamwork to help each other here.

Anybody who thinks we can achieve all we set out to achieve in the first three months of our six read more

Anybody who thinks we can achieve all we set out to achieve in the first three months of our six months presidency is either an optimist or naive, ... judge us at the end of the presidency.