Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away. I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody. The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us. I dazzle you with that footwork. Like 84% of Canadians, I believe in God. I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten. I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin. He tells you stories, but then, after a while, when you want more, he doesn't give you more. He insists on this old elaboration, the old stories that never changes. I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way. As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work. You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment. I'm having as much fun today as I did when I made $55 a week, because it is as much fun. I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that. Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression. I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away. If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it. We end the show with something that's never been on TV because it was too big for a sketch but we couldn't stretch it out to make a whole episode because it would have been too long, but we always thought it was really good. It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back. I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office. The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state. Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others. A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic. If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present. There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. Beaver do better work than the Corps of Engineers. Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate. These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion; or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual. Fortune favours the bold. I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first.