My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn’t especially religious. – Tony Blair
Venus hasn’t been to the semis for a couple of years in a Grand Slam – she’s been coming back from injury. – Tracy Austin
I don’t know how an actress is supposed to observe and create new stuff if she hasn’t been on the streets, brushing up against humanity. You have to have a life. – Sarah Jessica Parker
I accused a woman of doing something behind my back when I knew that she hadn’t, just to see if she loved me. – Tyrese Gibson
If you read a story with an ‘I’ or a ‘he’ or a ‘she,’ you’re in familiar territory – but ‘we’ is mostly unexplored. I think of ‘we’ as an adventure. – Steven Millhauser
I think Jane Austen builds suspense well in a couple of places, but she squanders it, and she gets to the endgame too quickly. So I will be working on those things. – Val McDermid
Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: ‘See? Look how bad capitalism is.’ – Said Sayrafiezadeh
My daughter, when she was younger, was crazy about ‘The X-Files,’ so I’d watch that with her. – Scott Bakula
It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting. – Soren Kierkegaard
If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe. – Simone Weil
I like being scared every now and then, I like the suspense and the thrills. Nothing like taking a girlfriend to a movie and holding her hand while she jumps. – Scott Foley
I think Kareena Kapoor is gorgeous. She is effortless. I have never seen her go overboard with her make-up or the way she dresses. Even off-screen or when travelling, she looks gorgeous. – Yami Gautam
Racism is everywhere – the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, ‘She’s darker-skinned; maybe don’t marry her,’ and it’s very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I’m against all of that. – Yuna
The first thing I would do for anyone who’s trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that he or she would consume during lapses of self-control. – Tim Ferriss
When I first watched Bette Davis in ‘All About Eve’, I was struck by how much I felt that she is Margo Channing and that she’s Bette Davis, where she was able to do both, where you’re like, ‘What an icon.’ – Tavi Gevinson
It’s not all ‘Jane Eyre’ out there. In her sweet, honorable, slightly passive-aggressive way, Jane was as perfect as a protagonist can get while remaining interesting; in fact, she’s one of my favorites. But most characters are more morally ambiguous. – Susan Isaacs
She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life. – Susan B. Anthony
I’m a huge fan of Beyonce for so many reasons, and not the reasons that most people are. There’s the obvious reasons – she’s gorgeous, she’s talented or whatever, but I think she’s really super-consistent. – Todrick Hall
My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it. – Tracy Chapman
I can assure you that I’m not very close to Hillary Clinton. I think she’s disqualified herself from Commander-in-Chief by her cavalier attitude towards our nation’s secrecy laws. – Tom Cotton
If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she’s difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman. – Tamara Mellon
There’s acting, and then there’s auditioning; mastering auditioning is sort of the first thing an actor really needs to nail down when he or she wants to get a part. – Teddy Sears