The Bible, that powerful book, has MANY effects: it COMFORTS, counsels, instructs, and BRINGS us into the presence of GOD. But TRYING to erase offense as one of its functions is a fundamentally misguided task.

Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of SLAVERY only a LITTLE less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must GO down with the other.

While receiving radiation TREATMENT for a thyroid illness, I had refused to TAKE beta-blockers - a MEDICATION that would have eased its side effects - because they were deemed ILLEGAL by the SPORT's governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations.

Especially in TELEVISION, when you do visual EFFECTS, what you're predominantly doing is TRYING to add VALUE to TV shows that OTHERWISE don't have any.

I spent 10 or 15 years doing visual EFFECTS and, if I learned anything from that TIME, it's that you do the BEST work when you let things go wrong and EMBRACE the happy accidents. Then suddenly it feels fresh and you're somewhere new.

Your intentions are your nonphysical causes that set ENERGY into motion. They CREATE a multitude of effects and, THEREFORE, determine the experiences of your life. This is one of the most important things that you can KNOW. It is also SOMETHING that you can see for yourself is true.

I've ALWAYS been respectful to all the PEOPLE who do VISUAL EFFECTS and special effects, because making movies is also making MAGIC.

New ROADS carve up the countryside, dispelling peace, CREATING a penumbra of noise, POLLUTION and ugliness. Their EFFECTS SPREAD for many miles.

As an Anglo-Indian kid in Bolton, I was basically in a MINORITY of one. That was a source of misery, but at the same time, one of the effects of RECEIVING the message that you don't BELONG to the club is that you watch the club with detachment. The fact that no one quite knew who I was was a MAJOR contributory factor in starting to write.

When I used to work in special effects at the MODEL SHOP, I couldn't imagine having a better JOB. We made spaceships and miniature cities and I was working on robots. Then the 'MythBusters' OPPORTUNITY came along.

In SPECIAL effects, you can cheat to MAKE it look good. In REAL SCIENCE, you have to have results.

This non-proletarianised plebs has been racialist when it has been colonialist; it has been nationalist - chauvinist - when it has been ARMED; and it has been fascist when it has BECOME the POLICE force.These ideological EFFECTS on the plebs have been uncontestable and PROFOUND.

I'm usually the LAST man on the totem pole. Except for the SOUND effects and the final sound mix, the score is the last element to be added to a PICTURE.