I think people tuned in a lot to see Barbara when she first came here and they just didn’t like the show they saw. I think it was dull. It was sterile.

Then I heard another shot which hit him right in the head, over here, and his head practically opened up and a lot of blood and many more things came out.

I don’t think it matters where I came from any more.

Every decade, we get a stunning collection of dynamic, heartbreaking short stories. In the past, those collections came from Barry Hannah, Mark Richard, and Thom Jones.

I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn’t in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the...

Eventually the bad stuff I’m writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I’ve just walked away from what I was working on, and figured I’d have a better perspective when I came back to it.

I came to New York late; I was already past 30.

As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn’t use outlines or sketches. I just had a vague idea of what I wanted to tell and...

I would agree that President Carter didn’t live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976. My husband and I were young idealists who worked on his campaign.

My family came in 1635 from England and settled in Williamsburg. Shortly after, they split up; half went to New England and half stayed in Virginia. I’m a Virginian Ballard.

Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches,...

My parents’ convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of ’90s grunge – if you got it now, you would think it...

There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.

I came second in a 1,500-metre running race at school. I knew I couldn’t have come first, so second was my version of first.

Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.

When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.

I’ve always wanted to be a professional dancer, I’d always wanted to be a ballerina. I trained for 13 years but it never came to be.

I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career.

Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.

After ‘Quantum Leap,’ a lot of sci-fi things came my way, and I had to say, ‘I can’t do that right now.’

If there’s one thing I discovered since I came back from hiatus, it’s that you can’t go backwards.

The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn’t communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.

I had a stammer through adolescence. Any fun I’d had performing in school plays disappeared and only came back at 18, when the stammer started to go. Then I thought: ‘Well, perhaps I can show...

When I came to the Senate in 1997, the world was being redefined by forces no single country controlled or understood. The implosion of the Soviet Union and a historic diffusion of economic and geopolitical...

To many book professionals, Amazon is a ruthless predator. The company claims to want a more literate world – and it came along when the book world was in distress, offering a vital new source...

My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964.

I give people ‘If You Came Softly’ when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best novels for adults.

I was always told at school I was posh, then I came to London, and here I’m told I have a country accent.

New York came after me aggressively and that’s what sealed the deal.

I always heard that immigrants had a really hard life when they came to America.

Nothing’s really changed since the Harry Potter films came along.

I’ve always been a producer – that’s how I see myself first. The DJing came second as a way for me to be able to perform.

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made ‘Rush Hour.’ And ‘Rush Hour’ really came out of the fact that I grew up watching ‘Beverly...

The attack on the British embassy in Tehran came just days after the Iranian ‘parliament’ voted to expel the British ambassador, and therefore reeks of official complicity.

The first win came very quick, and I didn’t know what it meant to win a major championship. I was a teenager, I was very young. I didn’t know what I was doing. I just...

I came out singing, the doctor slapped me on the head, and I started singing.

Working on ‘Raising Hope’ is a very hurry-up-and-wait activity, and I just always liked the idea of being as productive as I can be. I write because I don’t just want that time to dissolve,...

Being an actor only came about because Arnaud Desplechin, the guy who did ‘Kings and Queen’, had this curious idea to think that I could be an actor, but I had never acted before, and...

I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a...

I was really so excited when it came back on air and I saw all three of the actors who played ‘Doctor Who’ in the new version and they’ve all been absolutely brilliant in their...

I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.

When ‘MacGruber’ came out, David Wain was one of the first people who publicly championed it.

I was fortunate enough to have my kids early, so being a mom always ended up being a better gig than these other parts that came along. So I always justified not really working a...

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.

Joy always came after pain.

The main points were: one, the amount of Israel’s nuclear weapons, how many Israel had, that no one could predict or know, including the CIA. They were thinking about a number like 10 or 15....

Which came first—mind or body?

I think we’ve come a long way since then. The big thing that changed was when ecstasy came along in Britain.

I’m a bad pessimist. I don’t think about how successful any record I’ve ever done is going to do before it came out.

The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later.