Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne's regional pay cut plans, and Vince Cable now claims they are dead.
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THERESA MAY I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt. WILLIAM ALLINGHAM I think cable TV in the United States is amazing right now. It's reinvented television, really. ... ROBERT TAYLOR I love doing this day, and George was exactly as he's always been, very calm and very gentle, an... JEREMY BULLOCH Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many ... ALISTAIR DARLING It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON The only reason I'm ever in character as 'Larry The Cable Guy' is because that's wha... LARRY THE CABLE GUY In our house, Mother's Day is every day. Father's Day, too. In our house, parents count. The... MARGARET HEFFERNAN Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know... MARK RYDELL This exceptional event will help fund research in the battle against cancer. Each year more than a h... BEN WILCOX How would this play out in Charleston or Savannah or throughout the South? The building would be sav... GUY ROCHA Krispy Kreme claims the 'batter is the best part.' Same with an Obama speech. It's all a... KATHLEEN TROIA MCFARLAND The East loss was more our mistakes than East doing anything strong against us. I'll also say that i... BARRY STEBBINS Black glutinous rice works in both savoury and sweet dishes. It's a popular pudding rice in sout... YOTAM OTTOLENGHI In a compass, we got north, south, east and west, right? But in between that, you got things like no... BJ THE CHICAGO KID It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on co... RICK MOODY George Booth and I are both funny, and from afar, without meeting, admired each other's work. BILL COSBY Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reas... MAKO Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside... TASLIMA NASRIN It's impossible always to be with the majority in coalition government, especially when it's... AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN It's the cable shows that are really the most interesting - 'Mad Men,' 'Breaking Bad... DYLAN MCDERMOTT I didn't come out until 5 or 6 o'clock in the evening. Sleep all day, sleep and cook and eat... DAVID EDWARDS The rich pay more in total taxes now than ever before - ever. It's true. Just like it's true... NEIL CAVUTO My cell phone bill and my cable gets cut off all the time. Not because I don't have the money, b... ERIN CUMMINGS I really don't pay attention to the outside world when I'm incarcerated, because being in pr... KEVIN GATES Vince Vaughn is a genuine person, awesome guy. He'll come to a lot of my shows. It's not tha... DANE COOK I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara. PAT CONROY We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America... What's ... LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA With network, shows are pulled half the time after three episodes whether they're good or they... VALERIE CRUZ The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that... I feel like that's ... FRED ARMISEN However, because these losses are usually clustered in geographic areas, there is a risk that region... JAMES WALSH Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down... JESSE JACKSON 'Night of the Living Dead,' then 'Dawn of the Dead' is a few weeks later, 'Day o... GEORGE A. ROMERO When I hear people flatteringly say, 'You're an expert on East Asia...' I'm certainl... JENNY SHIPLEY People always come up to me now and say, 'Watchmen' is the best superhero movie ever made.... ZACK SNYDER The big debate right now is if Saddam is alive or dead. He's dead, then he's alive, then dea... DAVID LETTERMAN It's the WWE; it's Vince McMahon's show. He lays out what he wants from you. It's no... DOLPH ZIGGLER About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN I've been working through Maurice Druon's 'Accursed Kings' series. They come highly ... VICTORIA AVEYARD In my case, I pay a standard premium to participate in the Federal Employees' Health Benefits Pl... VIRGIL GOODE There seems to be a vulnerability at the networks in late night. They are losing more and more audie... FRED SILVERMAN Against South Lakes he didn't come out [of the game]. CHRIS KUHBLANK The one thing that's changed for 'That Metal Show' is that it's now global; it's... EDDIE TRUNK Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so... DONALD BERWICK 'The Birth of a Nation' occupies a view of the South not far from Scarlett O'Hara's ... RICHARD CORLISS The press don't wake up in the morning simply to be a mouthpiece for pols - they're out to u... BEAU WILLIMON Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom l... NICHOLAS SPARKS I grew up in south London, and I remember watching the scene pop off in East and think, 'Ahhhh, ... STORMZY It's in our nature. We need to explore and find out what's going on outside of who we are. BILLY DEE WILLIAMS On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his... HELEN HUNT JACKSON The day you see a camera come into our courtroom, it's going to roll over my dead body. 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SHERRY TURKLE Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense a... KAL PENN We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are ... JEREMIAH WRIGHT Early in last season, George was very worried about other people's emotions, especially how they... ELLEN MUTH I was born in the Midwest, where 'salad' was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children ... CANDY CROWLEY Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've... RICK WAGONER Robert Osborne either has the best job in the world, or comes very close. As millions of viewers kno... TOM SHALES I realize everybody wants what they don't have. But at the end of the day, what you have inside ... SELENA GOMEZ Because when they strike it can be that quick that if they're within range, you're dead, you... STEVE IRWIN The truth is I am not a very hands-on political wife; I don't get involved in day-to-day Downing... SAMANTHA CAMERON If you pay more than the minimum payment each month, pay it off earlier and you'll cut down the amou... JAMES WILLIAMS The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors... RAY BRADBURY I've never made plans for more than a day ahead. MARY MACLANE Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is ... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The day was a very good start. There was a good buzz and a lot of enthusiasm. There could have been ... STEPHEN TINDALE They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your cultur... BILLIE JEAN KING 'Doctor Who' is not as literary as 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' ... SYLVESTER MCCOY It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, a... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predat... ANDREA DWORKIN The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become m... ANNA GODBERSEN Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen. BOB EDWARDS We try to make the name longer and longer every year. First, it was 'Larry the Cable Guy's C... LARRY THE CABLE GUY They may have arisen in Europe or the Middle East and spread more readily east and west due to human... BRUCE T. LAHN I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato... ISAIAH WASHINGTON I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... RICK RIORDAN The white men in the East are like birds. They are hatching out their eggs every year, and there is ... GEORGE CROOK I was born in New York and raised in South Florida, so I'm an East Coast girl. 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DENIS O'BRIEN For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the fles... FLANNERY O'CONNOR The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth. FLANNERY O'CONNOR There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dr... FLANNERY O'CONNOR We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought ab... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be kno... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not. FLANNERY O'CONNOR Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them. P.J. O'ROURKE I have been told by the third grade teacher that my daughter Poppet is reading at middle school leve... P.J. O'ROURKE My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings. FLANN O'BRIEN When all else fails, there's always delusion. CONAN O'BRIEN You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone e... JENNIFER O'NEILL The yellow commuter train ran through canal-crossed fields as dull as graph paper. Always one saw ev... JOSEPH O'NEILL I was always the girl growing up who just wasn’t quite like the rest of them. I liked working hard... R.B. O'BRIEN You don't know. When I'm out there at night I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving,... TIM O'BRIEN They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these wer... TIM O'BRIEN I was a coward. I went to the war. TIM O'BRIEN To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace. Almost everything is true. Almost nothing ... TIM O'BRIEN Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mat... TIM O'BRIEN Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like bein... TIM O'BRIEN Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of y... TIM O'BRIEN It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn s... TIM O'BRIEN In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seem... TIM O'BRIEN It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course,... TIM O'BRIEN He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, ... TIM O'BRIEN And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That's what stories are for.... TIM O'BRIEN What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end... TIM O'BRIEN It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to d... TIM O'BRIEN you're never more alive than when you're almost dead. TIM O'BRIEN But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the w... TIM O'BRIEN War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and... TIM O'BRIEN I survived, but it's not a happy ending. TIM O'BRIEN Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when y... TIM O'BRIEN The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream alo... TIM O'BRIEN But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget. TIM O'BRIEN A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of p... TIM O'BRIEN They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink o... TIM O'BRIEN She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick. FLANNERY O'CONNOR I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing. FLANNERY O'CONNOR We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth PATRICK O'BRIAN Two weevils crept from the crumbs. 'You see those weevils, Stephen?' said Jack solemnly. ... PATRICK O'BRIAN She sits there and feels the loneliness and the lack of him MAGGIE O'FARRELL