An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows… We’re reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa – just kind of open space.
I think I was always this weird, watchful kind of kid, and there was an awful lot of coming and going in my house as a result of my father being a doctor and then, later, a politician… We’d literally be having to get through the window some days because we couldn’t get in the door.
There’s an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.
I haven’t seen a player in this game, as long as I’ve been in it, that can’t be pitched to… Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out.
People are looking for a simplicity in their fictional worlds where good and evil are clearly delineated, that you can’t find in the real world, and that provides an enormous comfort – and that, I think, has an awful lot to do with the reason fantasy is so popular.
If you look around us, there are an awful lot of men out there, and women, but mostly men, who believe that they have got a fast-track path to Heaven, if they do the things that they believe God is telling them to do, and I don’t just mean Islamic people. I mean Fundamentalist Christians.
An awful lot of people have childhood memories of holidays in Cornwall, and the holidays are old-fashioned and hugely successful. You stick a child and a dog on one of the beaches, and they just light up; they just love it.
I came rather late to film. I’ve done an awful lot of theater before – before I discovered the camera, you know, seeing everything, requiring much less acting and – and much less presentation, much less projecting, more just being.
The simple truth is that in order to become good, you have to be obsessed. You have to put in an awful lot of time and hard work and couple that with desire and unflagging perseverance.
Bryan Gray at Preston gave me a chance, even though Joe Royle and Ian Rush were being linked with the job. He taught me an awful lot about structuring the job and encouraged me to invest in young players.
There’s an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
People are surprised to find out that an awful lot of people think that they’re idiots.
We didn’t have an awful lot of space. There were six of us born within the space of seven or eight years – I was third. I remember sharing a room with one or other of my brothers – at one point we had three single beds in one room.
I started buying bits of broken porcelain. I furnished our first flat with pieces of ‘junk.’ Some of that ‘junk’ is now worth an awful lot of money. What I was calling ‘junk’ in the ’60s people wouldn’t call ‘junk’ now.
People are leaving trails everywhere they go; automated web crawlers tell you an awful lot about their social activities. The flow of information in fundamentally unobtrusive ways into social control organisations has risen dramatically.
I spend an awful lot of time thinking about stuff that’s happened, but I don’t want to be someone who’s only writing songs because it’s therapy.
I used to get an awful lot of letters, and they have almost all gone. I used to answer nearly all of them.
It was a really fun idea to have a fashion label with my sister but I don’t have an awful lot of time for it because my first love and job is to be an actress.
I get an awful lot of people coming up and saying they went to school with me. There must have been 80,000 pupils at that school!
If I have to read another cultural studies analysis of ‘The Sopranos,’ I give up. There’s an awful lot of rubbish around masquerading as cultural studies.
I’ve worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy.
My parents spent an awful lot of money sending me to the best possible schools, and I came out of my exams and thought, ‘I don’t really want to do a degree.’ I did philosophy with the Jesuits for about a year, and then I joined a bank. While I was there, I saw an ad in an Irish paper for radio announcers.
I have to tell people that they are not responsible for their behavior. They’re not creating it; they’re not initiating anything. It’s all found somewhere else. That’s an awful lot to relinquish.
Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It’s very busy up on the shuttle.
I’ve paid an awful lot of lawyers to protect what I’ve built. I can only hope the money was well spent.
I’ve got many close friends, but there’s an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.
The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn’t wait around for a return trip to Europe. You settle some place with a purpose. If you don’t want to do that, stay home. You avoid an awful lot of risks by not venturing outward.
I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.
Critics have to sit through an awful lot of rubbish, and you feel really sorry for them. In fact, I’ve been in a play where I felt sorry for the critics.
But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
Teenagers come to things fresh and can really teach us an awful lot.
There’s almost nothing that hasn’t been said about me. But there’s an awful lot that I haven’t said. I don’t talk about private things.
I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
This game is full of rejection. As an actor, you are being told ‘No’ an awful lot of the time. You have to keep getting up and carrying on to get to where you want to go.
An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I’m going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay.
If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.
I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.
I have not lost an awful lot in my life, but the defeats have taught me more than the victories.
