You can’t have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they’re not going to hear them in America. I believe it’s part of their education.
The IMPAC is a terribly important award.
While books provided me with some escape from the mental and physical horrors of my early life, they were unreliable. Many times the protagonists suffered terribly and then died at the end.
There is nothing terribly difficult in the Bible – at least in a technical way. The Bible is written in street language, common language. Most of it was oral and spoken to illiterate people. They were the first ones to receive it. So when we make everything academic, we lose something.
You drive past your old high school, and even if everybody treated you terribly, you still go take a look, don’t you?
I have fallen in love with people in the lab, and people in the lab have fallen in love with me, and it’s very disruptive to the science because it’s terribly important that, in a lab, people are on a level playing field.
New York is such a competitive place; it tears people apart. People come here and, if they can’t make it in the first month, they get torn apart and they have to go back to where they came from. I don’t think that’s terribly healthy.
My mother was very, very beautiful, and I saw that the beautiful women around me were often constrained not only by their beauty but by the way that being an object of male desire frequently caused violence in their lives. And it caused them to be constrained in these terribly sad ways – their brilliance was not valued.
I got out of this school and went to Camberwell College of Arts, a terribly prestigious thing to do. I was there to be a painter. And I sketched so well that, a year later, I was sent to Slade School of Fine Art, one of the great art schools.
I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size.
I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh.
Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chances. Lives can go terribly wrong in ways that can never be put right.
People tend to assume I was terribly self-conscious about my height. In fact, I’ve always been perfectly comfortable with the way I am. And if anyone gave me any stick, they soon found I was quite capable of giving it back.
A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.
I’m not terribly fond of soapboxes.
I’m happy with the way ‘100 Bullets’ ends terribly.
In 1991, my father passed away and I went on a spiritual quest. It was a light one, not too terribly deep because I’m not terribly deep, and neither was my father.
In real life, I have mostly gone for nice guys. I definitely had a phase where I was like, “Oh, the bad guy is really cool.” It’s fun to be bad for a while, and then that ended really terribly – one piece of advice I’ll give to people is your mom is always right.
A lot of my stories about the old days, they’re delicious and funny. But every time I recall the early days, it’s painful. With every anecdote, it’s painful because you’re summoning up the terribly, terribly difficult life of my parents. And it’s painful because I didn’t realize at the time how hard it was for them.
I think experience is a terribly overrated idea when it comes to thinking about who should become president.
Being single, I thought would be fun, but it is terribly boring. And I am a romantic, but only when I am in love. I can’t force it otherwise.
I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it.
People are suspicious of science. They see it as being responsible for problems like the degradation of our climate. There is also a strand in society that says physics is terribly hard.
It’s interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn’t going to be terribly painful but rather very exciting.
I’m terribly forgetful. I’ve lost laptops, cell-phones.
I believe that we should, on biblical grounds, tell all parents of mentally disabled children that God loves their children, regrets terribly that they are disabled, and will, when they die, carry them gently into a heavenly life where every person is forever whole.
When I read the pilot of ‘The Sopranos,’ I wasn’t terribly blown away by it.
Every now and then, I feel terribly uncomfortable with what I’m working on, and then I think maybe I am an artist. I’m not very articulate about it, but I do know that you have to follow your gut.
The absurdist stuff wasn’t terribly popular at the time I was doing it.
Sometimes I have given my husband a manuscript to read that has turned out to have fantastic rave reviews and he’ll tell me it is no good. Well, if I didn’t know him as well as I know him I would be terribly depressed.
The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.
In Britain, when the working class are summoned for fiction, it’s ‘isn’t it a shame, isn’t it a pity, isn’t it awful, the terribly poor things… ‘ whereas from within, it’s nothing like that. It’s fantastic, it’s glamorous, it’s terrible and good the same as it is for everybody.
I come from a family of teasers myself. My grandfather was from Liverpool, and he had a dry sense of humor, and he would tease us terribly. My brother Beau was so skilled in his teasing that he could get a rise out of me by simply pointing at me.
Maintenance is terribly important.
It’s possible to watch ‘Gone Girl’ and feel that you have seen something terribly bleak. But it’s also possible to receive it as good news. Any powerful articulation of the need for change is also a testimony to the possibility of change.
I’m not terribly confrontational, but I’ve gotten better at holding my ground.
Improvisation is terribly haphazard.
It seems that ‘rocket scientist’ is a job category that’s here for the long haul, like ‘mortician.’ But all this activity masks an important point: rockets are not a terribly efficient way to lift things into space.
There is nothing terribly wrong with my face, even if some of its parts aren’t very inspiring.
It’s terribly important that we extend the promise of equality that the Supreme Court and that the district court articulated in the DOMA case and in the Perry case to all Americans in all 50 states.
I’m not terribly good at being around work I don’t care about!
I miss both of my parents terribly every day, but especially as we approach Thanksgiving. We always came together as a family for that holiday, playing capture the flag and touch football and laughing a lot.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
It’s not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he’s fun to read out loud.
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question ‘How?’ but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question ‘Why?’
When I was five, I discovered a secret box that contained Mummy’s stage makeup. It was like finding buried treasure. I tried the rouge, the eye shadow, the lipstick. But I couldn’t get the rouge off. Mummy spanked me terribly.
I was terribly ambitious: I was always thinking why wasn’t I in the West End. I really wasted my whole youth.
I think it’s dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight.
We like to think of industrialization as being despicable. I don’t really know what to make of it. There’s something terribly brittle about it.
When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society.
But here’s the thing: I had this great job, and I would still feel terribly depressed. I would just be like, ‘This isn’t the sweet spot. I thought this would be it, and I don’t feel happy.’
I’m not terribly ambitious, not terribly driven.
I think when you get into your 30s, you start to realize all of the patterns you have in your life and all of the stuff that you’re avoiding. It’s a terribly unsung period in people’s lives. I can’t think about many artists who have sung about it, because it’s so not sexy.
I find talking about acting very boring, having to come out with platitudes about how terribly nice everyone is. I would much rather just do it.
India has lot of talent. What I am happy with is that the talent keeps on coming. Certainly it could be nice, though I am not terribly keen on seeing my successor yet.
I think that the stuff I write for pop music is terribly, terribly cheesy.
I feel terribly misunderstood; I feel terribly misunderstood.
