It doesn't MATTER what kind of clothes you PUT on: if you're a STYLISH individual, you're GOING to preserve that.

To me, it doesn't MATTER how good you are. Sport is all about PLAYING and competing. WHATEVER you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and TRY to WIN.

I see FILM as a real opportunity to examine the human condition. No matter where the TECHNOLOGY goes in the future, the BASICS don't change. Storytelling is a primitive tribal function. The elders sat around the FIRES and told these stories as a way to pass on the 'dos' and the 'don'ts.' That will NEVER change.

Great people WANT to WORK on THINGS that MATTER. Inevitably, a great person WORKING on imaginary work will turn into an unsatisfied person.

I BELIEVE the most intricate plot won't matter MUCH to readers if they don't care about the characters, especially in a SERIES. So I try to FOCUS hard on making each CHARACTER, whether villain or hero, have an interesting flaw that readers can relate to.

I am an American. I adore Britain and have a STRONG English HALF, but my ROOTS are here in the U.S. - it is not a matter of choice; it is simply FACT.

As a child, I was fortunate enough to be close to FAMILY members who were - and STILL are - GREAT storytellers. I was a gullible country boy from Rocky Mount, Virginia, and I BELIEVED EVERY folktale they told me, no matter how fantastic.

The issue of the environment as seen by Pope FRANCIS is not a matter of purely scientific or, INDEED, THEOLOGICAL debate: it involves ECONOMIC and political views on how the world's poor can be brought out of poverty while protecting the environment.

No matter what happens to US in LIFE, we must GET BACK on our FEET and continue on the path.

My mom and DAD's FRIENDS were GAY, and so I was raised with the acknowledgement to love one another, no matter one's SEXUAL orientation.

If there was a WRONG NOTE, it didn't MATTER as LONG as it was ROCKING.

You can't have EVERYTHING you WANT, but you can have the THINGS that REALLY MATTER to you.

When I go to business MEETINGS, I'm still told way too often by some receptionist, 'The MAIL room is downstairs,' to believe that racial perceptions don't still exist. But I figure there are always going to be knuckleheads no matter how MANY of their herd get stuck in the tar pits of PROGRESS.