One Of The Most MISSED Components Of The Entire Insurgency In Iraq Was That Syria And Bashar AL-Assad Facilitated Al Qaeda's Operations In Iraq. They Actually Headquartered The Iraq Ba'ath PARTY And All Of Their Escaped GENERALS In Damascus.

I Had Tried Writing NOVELS For Many Years, And They ALWAYS Escaped Me. For A Long TIME, I Thought, 'It's Just Not In Me To Write A Novel. It's Not Something I'm Able To Do.' It Seemed Like Everything I Wrote Naturally Ended At The BOTTOM Of Page Three. A Picture Book, Three Pages; An ESSAY, Three Pages.

I Escaped LONDON In 1997 Because It Was HARD To RAISE CAPITAL.

When You've Done A Show That's As Successful As 'Lovejoy' Was, It Hangs AROUND For A Few YEARS, And People Know You From It. I Escaped The SHADOW When I STOPPED 'Lovejoy' By Not Doing Any TELEVISION For Four Years.

The TWO Lines From 'Roots' That STICK Out To Me Are, 'You No More In AFRICA. You In AMERICA Now,' And What I Said After Kunta Escaped: 'What Is It Like To Be Free, Kunta? It Must Be SOMETHING.'

They Were INVOLVED In A Firefight And FELT They Were SURROUNDED. WHETHER They Escaped From That And Were Fleeing And Went In The WRONG Direction, We Don't Know.

I Was Lucky Because On The Morning After The Burning Of The REICHSTAG I Left My Home Very Early To Catch A Train To Berlin For The CONFERENCE Of Our STUDENT Organization And That Is The Only REASON Why I Escaped Arrest.

When Many CHINESE Escaped To North Korea During The Cultural REVOLUTION, We Embraced Them. People In CHINA Have FORGOTTEN About This.

My MOTHER Is An Escaped FARM Girl From North Dakota And A Self-taught Artist And PAINTER.