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Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

I think I had about a month off when I broke my rib in Australia, which was magnificent.

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something.

Bananarama were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press.

I did 'Nobody Walks' right after 'Dredd.' Well, actually, I got off the plane from Capetown where we shot 'Dredd' and tested for 'Being Flynn' that same day. Then I came out to L.A. to make this film right after that so it was all very back to back.

Look at all the Misfits products that came out. We never made a dime off it.

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

My whole act is off the top of my head.

I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on.

Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy.

You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.

But my passion is racing cars. It's what I like to do in my off time.

Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don't want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I look at that prize money and think it could pay off my new house or the range I'm building. I am privileged to play golf for a living - look around St Andrews, that's my office.

I've always known and been interested in people who are a little bit off the norm. I like to call attention to the idea that they are there, that they are real people, not invisible.

I thrive off the company of others, I love being sociable.

When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.

Sometimes directors will hire you and say, 'Oh, we love your work.' And then they start to tell you how to do it. I say, 'Hey, man, back off. You hired me to do it. Let me do it.'

I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated.

My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!

I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college.

When we came off the tour for the last album, we started on this one. We've just been chipping away at it. We're not in that much of a hurry, because when we release a Blur album, that's a three year promotion and touring cycle.

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people.

I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test?

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.