A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.

For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.

I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.

The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.

I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

On the night of the 1st of September we observed for the first time signs of the natives being in the neighbourhood. Fires were seen on the low land near Cape Frederick Henry, and at daylight we saw the natives with our glasses.

In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs.

Being a secretary was considered a very good job in those days.

It's the same as any role and I find that you can't lump characters together; because they all have different life experiences, different reasons for being the way they are.

Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes.

I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

I'm a human being, I'm not a machine. I'm 72. I'm dyslexic.

Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.

Part of protecting our homeland means being less dependent on foreign countries for our energy.