When I start to write words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.

I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point a romantic point but reach it in a really unconventional way a really profane way. To get to that romantic touching heartbreaking place but through a lot of acts of profanity.

I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life I want to fall in love with a man.

We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.

I do support enhanced interrogation techniques. Obviously their value is shining through with respect to the bin Laden killing.

Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas both our own and those of others and an understanding that conflict through debate is a powerful means of revealing truth.

The first few games that we played against some of the teams the young guys you know want a stick sign or photo sign and I think that they respect what I have achieved throughout my career.

I believe that like most writers my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really.

I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.

I do think that at one time being an actress was the equivalent almost of being a prostitute. It garnered roughly the same respect. That's changed a lot thank goodness.

Whenever I go out so many people who respect me ask me what to do in a certain situation. A lot of times I didn't know the answers because sometimes I was going through the same sort of thing. But then later on I would think of things that people told me.

I have a new found respect for women who have been through breast cancer and this surgery.

I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me I'm happy and I embrace it.

Somebody who's really comfortable with who she is and doesn't care what other people think. I like women who are really strong and were brought up to be comfortable with themselves and respect themselves.

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.

It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time you can work through anything.

We went online to surrogacy agencies. We interviewed lots of people - and I have to say with all due respect some of them were freaks. I was very leery of the process the whole way through.