The previous generation, such as Alec Stewart and Nasser Hussain, lost to Australia on many occasions.

I should and can play better. That is going to be the challenge for me.

Watching the ball is always a good starting point.

I am extremely proud of everything I have achieved as a cricketer, and I have found myself very fortunate to play in an era when some of English cricket's greatest moments have occurred.

Glenn McGrath had a reasonable career in Australia.

Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.

I wanted to shut my mind, that my thoughts might closeon my own peace, I wanted to closethe peace of my love in my heartlike dew in a dark rose."From "Philip Speaks

I know the Lord loves me.

How we fall into grace. You can't work or earn your way into it. You just fall. It lies below, it lies beyond. It comes to you, unbidden.

I don't have any beauty shop memories. I remember the barber shop.

Freedom is not enough.

Modesty in women has two special advantages,--it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.

Films are very influential, and I especially feel a responsibility to tell stories that have been pushed aside. Being able to shed light on issues that need to be brought to the world.

No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny them to others.