The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable. So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that. Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously. The only thing I think I can be accused of about paparazzi is being really naive. I didn't think about it coming along with the job and I never, during my three years at drama school, fantasized about one bit of it. I had studied violin from age 7 to 14. You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell. My mother insisted that her children read. A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. Everybody has a bad hair day, but us girls still like to be told we look nice even if we don't feel like we do. I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun. One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis. We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free. There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You. Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you. People read things into my commercials that don't even exist. My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define. I grew up a Catholic and I don't want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but there's a lot of routine stuff going on. You say the same prayers, you sit, you kneel, whatever. Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system. Layer by layer art strips life bare. At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent. The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh. Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. The rewards of virtue alone abide secure. It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know. Seeing someone else perform and letting me be the critic for once... that's not a bad thing. There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own.