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I have never been able to wear a hat. My hair is peculiar in that it grows so fast that any hat I put on instantly leaps from my head.
As long as we've still got crazy "what if" ideas, we can continue [Black Mirror]. It's outpacing reality that's probably the challenge.
Some say that he has no understanding of clouds, and that his ear wax tastes like Turkish Delight. All we know is he’s called the Stig.
If a football official were to call for a slow-motion replay every time Didier Drogba fell over, each match would last about six weeks.
Strong religious identities survive and thrive. But more than ever before, even in their most conservative iterations, they are chosen.
It's amazing that Sky is the only place that has two dedicated arts channels. The BBC is doing very well... but why don't they do more?
Investing in girls can actually move the needle in communities... and can actually benefit boys, because girls are the mothers of boys.
On the other hand [making a string of one-off episodes], there's a real freedom, because you're kind of reinventing the show every week.
I was more aware initially of shows like Tales of the Unexpected. And the BBC used to put on a lot of one-off, bizarre television plays.
The sole purpose of a crown is to make anyone not wearing one feel like an insignificant pauper. They're obscene to the point of satire.
Hopefully, some supervillain threat will come down, and we will have to unite as a species and fire our nukes into the sun or something.
Overall, looking at the stories [Black Mirror], almost every story we've ever done is concerned with authenticity or reality in some way.
The nature of human beings is that they'd far rather face the disaster that is happening tonight than the one that is happening tomorrow.
I do think the BBC could do more, but I've always thought the BBC could do more - I think there should be more arts programmes full stop.
The less the ISIS 'caliphate' exists as a physical entity, the less the group can claim it is the 'Islamic State' that it purports to be.
Donald Trump's own mother Mary escaped the bone-crushing poverty of Scotland's remote Outer Hebrides for the promise of New York in 1929.
I really don't want to sound like overly negative or critical of the Internet in general because I'm actually really quite pro-technology.
You don't have the economy of scale of building a set once and casting once. You blow up the world, basically, at the end of each episode.
[My parents when I was a kid] would go, "It's a nice hot day. Why are you inside watching the TV?" And you go, "Well, 'cause it's better?"
God, people say 'Black Mirror' was horrible - it's nothing compared to the stuff that happens in 'Grimms' Fairy Tales.' It's mind-bending.
Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.
We must continue to educate the masses and encourage savings in Bitcoin to truly drain the kleptocratic swamp ruling our financial system.
If the party of Lincoln wishes to become the party of intolerance, selecting Trump to be its presidential candidate is a good way forward.
There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.
The idea that popular arts were shallow by definition and the traditional arts were profound was dead, I thought, and I wanted to prove it.
Set your sights beyond what you can see. There is true majesty in the concept of an unseen power which can neither be measured nor weighed.
I'm looking forward to the 'Twilight Zone' from Jordan Peele... if anyone's gonna reboot the 'Twilight Zone,' then there's the man to do it.
I was known as a dogged, unflappable live reporter, the kind who runs barefoot to the camera, high heels in one hand, notebook in the other.
well with me now is Geoffrey Robinson. He was once voted 'After-dinner Speaker of the Year', so if you've had your tea, you're in for a treat
Trump is a room-reader. He'll slow down a line, rephrase a point, work in a pause, and ride the energy of his audience wherever it takes him.
We were working class, and you don't lose that. Later on, I bolted on media middle class... and now people like me are in the House of Lords.
Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.
I could worry that I'm going to bleed to death, you know, from cutting my finger on a sandwich packet, you know, if I sort of open a sandwich.
London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.
There are three main controllers of power here in Britain: the political establishment in Westminster, the BBC (MSM), and the Bank Of England.
I am very suspicious of the notion that somehow bin Laden was a media creation... Bin Laden's actions made him into a big deal. Not the media.
It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks about what's "too much" what's "enough" or if you're telling the "right" stories, just do good work.
I think people who watch 'Top Gear' think they're the only ones watching it, which I quite like, because it can hopefully last for a long time.
I don't get nervous when I'm interviewing someone on film - it can be cut, and we can do it again. It is quite nerve-racking doing things live.
The Trump administration launched the cruise missile strikes in Syria, an act of war, without a U.N. resolution or Congressional authorization.
The Sunni militants that make up ISIS are not the underlying problem in Syria and Iraq, but rather they are a symptom of other deeper problems.
All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.
The New York City police department is more representative of the city it serves than most law firms, university faculties, and media companies.
And in the end, bin Laden died in a squalid suburban compound surrounded by his wives and children and far from the front lines of his holy war.
That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands.
And there will continue to be a specific threat, and there will continue to be terrorism, as there has been for as long as human history exists.
Hi-def is merely the latest in a string of evolutional leaps that have transformed the way we sit slumped in front of a box wishing we were dead.
I've always been an outsider. I think, being in the White House press corps, it's difficult to do the sort of journalism that I would want to do.
Sports are, and should be, a joy. And it delights me that the joy I felt through the years of broadcasting games was projected onto the audience.
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.