These people have gone through so much, ... They need to rest, and they need to recuperate.

The U.S. is roughly 300 million people and the rest of the world is 6 billion people, so when you think of the opportunity of international markets, that's the best example.

You don't get a rest before shooting. There's nowhere to take a break. People on TV will see it as a dinky little downhill before the shooting and think, 'Well, it's easy.' But you've just climbed up a kilometer up to there and you're totally wiped out by the time you get to the point.

There's a perception that British pies suffer from mediocrity, and historically they have. We're trying to re-educate people about what pie is.

I think any politician from the Northeast is going to have a difficult selling job to the rest of the Republican Party. It's the social issues, but it's also a broader cultural difference.

[So the Potters gave it a rest. Until last spring, that is, when they noticed that Ken Bacher was now spearheading the Dalai Lama's redux.] That's when I finally decided to take this issue public, ... As a result, we've been shunned by our friends. But this has been eating at me for 12 years.