The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.
I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we had put things in front of them as opportunities. Set pieces, props and so on.
If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.
We cannot go on as we are with 2.6 million people on incapacity benefit, 500,000 of them are under 35. Are we really saying there are half a million people in this country under 35 who are simply too ill to work? I don't think that's right.
But we will say something else. That for far too long in this country, people who can work, people who are able to work, and people who choose not to work: you cannot go on claiming welfare like you are now.
We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.
We will say to people that if you can work, and if you want to work, we will do everything we can to help you. We will give you the training, we will give you the support, we will give you the advice to get you going and get you back at work.
What we're putting forward is the most radical reform of the welfare state... for 60 years. I think it will have a transformative effect in making sure that everyone is better off in work and better off working rather than on benefits.
There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.
Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.
I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.
Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.
I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
I enjoy doing both of them very much, concert work particularly, and the division varies from season to season.