Pastoral Resources

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

I come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.

Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it wasn't a really challenging part for me. I'm not critical of the film: I just don't think I gave a very interesting performance.

A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless. All a woman has to do is put you on hold.

It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.

And at the same time, you are of course a performer, but it's very important that you understand that your role as a performer is to get the best performance from those wonderful colleagues that you have the chance to work with.

My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman.

If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.

People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.