I voted against Gerald Nabarro in my first general election, but my defiance made no difference. If you had put a Conservative rosette on a mustachioed hamster, it would have been elected.

The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.

Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.

It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.

I got fed up of listening to bollocks

Sharing holiday snaps on social media is an act of arrogant vanity.

Television bosses should stop insulting the public's intelligence by assuming we are all idiots.

I hate the word 'sneering', I can't help the way my face looks.

The defining problem of contemporary television is trust: Can you believe what you see on television, does television treat people fairly, is it healthy for society?

It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer.

It would be unforgivable to use the role I have, such as it is, to inflict my incoherent, half-baked view of the world on people. That would be illegitimate and unacceptable and I should be fired.

It started long before this, when stars were mere particles in swirling clouds of dust. And every event since has conspired to bring us together.

In a half-empty-glass sort of world, I’m the little girl whose cup runneth over.

God stands in no need of our strength or wisdom, but of our ignorance, of our weakness; let us but give these to Him, and He can make use of us in winning souls.

At every moment, you have the opportunity to crap out. The world will always tell you to play it safe and just be dead.

Very few people make exterior movies anymore. It's always action films driven by action and quick editing.

Whenever a new situation presented itself, you had to remain cool and distant

Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

You cant just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.

An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up his sensibilities.