In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics; it makes me suspect that they favour the word over the world it should describe. Such scribes fall victim too easily to the solecism of equating style with morality.
Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I’d never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.
Every woman goes through a lot of agony before she decides in favour of her own happiness or that of her children.
I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete’s baby. I just think genetics are in my favour.
I think the consistency in my performances, my ability to adapt to different coaches, systems or competitions work in my favour.
Just getting auditions was rough. But also just learning how to act – when I did my first role, in a film I did which was a favour to a friend, I realised I was really bad at it.
I am not in favour of the takeover of excellent and strategically important British companies by struggling foreign firms whose actions are fuelled by tax avoidance, and who want to asset-strip the intellectual property of the British company and then dismember it.
The IP standards advanced countries favour typically are designed not to maximise innovation and scientific progress, but to maximise the profits of big pharmaceutical companies and others able to sway trade negotiations.
I am totally in favour of reform – but it must be reform that changes the nature of British politics, not simply the makeup or operation of parliament.
In every match, there are difficult decisions; sometimes they go in your favour and sometimes against. You need to be able to accept them.
The more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything’s fixed not in your favour.
The country will never vote in favour of those who do not acknowledge Lord Ram and Lord Krishna.
I love Twitter, and my little corner of it is heavily weighted in favour of women, many of them writers: Caitlin Moran, India Knight, Lauren Laverne, Grace Dent, Deborah Orr, Marina Hyde, Suzanne Moore. I look at that list of names and think, ‘Here comes the fun – fun that knows its way around a dictionary.’
There is, I think, far too much guilt generally in society around parenthood, about whether or not you breastfeed or whether or not you bottle feed. We know the evidence is very strong in favour of breastfeeding and the benefits of that, but it shouldn’t mean we make people feel bad if they can’t do that for some reason.
Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others.
In 1988, federal data showed a modest China-trade surplus of $1.6 billion in Canada’s favour.
I’ve always said that I favour an elected second chamber and I think it’s important that there are members of the House of Lords who are willing to vote for their own demise.
Parents don’t reveal how often they have bitten their tongue, fought back the tears, or been too tired to take off their clothes after a day of childcare. The parent loves, but they do not expect the favour to be returned in any significant way.
Stack the cards in your favour, and in a casino, you’ll get arrested and put in prison, but in business and in life, it’s the right thing to do.
I wasn’t scouted in the mall as a kid; it just kinda happened naturally ’cause of Instagram and New York and being visible, which is cool. Things just started rolling in. Timing was in my favour ’cause the Internet acted as a catalyst for the fashion industry to change and be more open ’cause people demanded it.
I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!
