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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'

I'm not quite as anonymous as I was.

I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.

At the BBC we've had plenty of women in good management jobs. It comes and goes but there's been plenty. On air, I think there's quite a bit more we can do.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

I've got quite a curvy shape so I try to wear stuff that's tailored.

When it comes to my family I never quite know how protective I have to be, or what I should or shouldn't say.

I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m.

I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out.

When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.

I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

My father had his own business, a clothing store, which he inherited from his father. He travelled abroad frequently and was quite extravagant, so we had skiing holidays and summer holidays on the beach.

It's actually quite criminal how 'The Wire' was systematically ignored.

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.

I'm quite repulsed by the diva type.

I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.

I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.

Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.

I worked with Cecil B DeMille quite a few times.

I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be.

Men are likely to be quite generous, especially financially.

I came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated. I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got British television jobs intermittently between the ages of 23 and 27, but it was very patchy.

I have met a couple of six-year-olds who were apparently quite excited to meet me - before they actually met me. And when they actually met me they ran behind their parents' legs and cowered for shelter.

I'm over-industrious, so I don't feel quite such a deviant in America as I did in England.

The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.

This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.

In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent.

I'd say I'm quite powerful so I'm not afraid of jumps or acrobatic elements. The hardest part is... get on the beam and stay there on top of it!

Sometimes I say things that I think are obviously sarcastic and people take them quite literally.

I am quite prehistoric, absolutely prehistoric.

I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things.

And given that there's been probably a ten-fold amount of information about terrorism through the media than there has about climate change; I think that's quite an interesting statistic.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal.

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

People have a negative impression of New York that I don't think is quite fair.

Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.

I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.

I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough.

It must be quite rare for an interviewer to be interviewed.

I was a terrible actor. The analytical part of my mind never quite let go.

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don't really know how to channel it or where to take it, so I don't take it quite as well.

I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.

'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to them as provocation, then that's quite different. 'Funny Games' is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

I'm quite grounded.

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.

Look, obviously that was - created quite a firestorm, but Newsweek editors have made clear that this was a situation where, you know, a solid, well-placed source provided some information.

Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.

I'm quite a competitive person, so I do quite like to win.

Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.

I'm a much healthier eater and I've lost quite a bit of weight over the years.

As I go back and listen, the other girls weren't singing quite like I was.

It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people.

I'm quite dyslexic in school.

Music creates a certain mood and then people dress accordingly. I think it's all quite closely intertwined.

I have to exfoliate my lips as they're quite a large surface area and sometimes when I wear lipstick, it goes all cakey. So I mix brown sugar with lip balm and just scrub it onto them.

I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.

I'm quite grateful to the BBC. They helped me back onto the touring circuit.

I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun.

Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons.

Although I'm not shy when I'm singing, I am whenever I hear applause. I don't know if you've noticed, but I giggle a lot on-stage. That's shyness. And the stage manager is always telling me to take a longer bow whenever I come off-stage. I still haven't learnt to do that properly. I see other artistes milking the applause, but I can't quite do it.

Being a question on 'The Weakest Link,' that was quite a moment.

I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.