There's no environment. Use your imagination. There's no fourth wall whether it's the first time you've told this story about her life or the sixth time.

I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.

What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself and your growth and development first.

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first an ideal with takes the imagination by storm and second a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first rather than the heart it being much more sensitive.

First comes thought then organization of that thought into ideas and plans then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning as you will observe is in your imagination.

If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.

Well it's a humor strip so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if in addition I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me so much the better.

The first glass is for myself the second for my friends the third for good humor and the forth for my enemies.

Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976.

There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.

And I would be the first to admit that probably in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth the next good sense the third good humor and the fourth wit.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time representing every nation.

If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace.

The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy filled with hope and thought 'Now I understand the whole point of work of life of love.'

I love the Beatles. I haven't named any kids after them but I still really love them. They were the first group that I was ever properly aware of. In my early teens I would sometimes stay in and listen to the radio all day in the hope that I would catch a song by them that I'd never heard before and be able to tape it on my radio-cassette player.

'A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints' was the first real actor-actor part I did and I hope I to do more. Action movies are fun but I'd be happy not to do them if there are better roles.

I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

Nothing you write if you hope to be good will ever come out as you first hoped.

What we hope ever to do with ease we must learn first to do with diligence.

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.