A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't.

I grew up with a lot of guys, some of them are dead, some of them are this and some of them that, and some of them very, very powerful, bright young men, who became this instead of that simply because of a lack of guidance - that's all.

I was elected to Westminster when I was 25; I was Britain's youngest MP.

Young players have to realise pretty quickly that it is not about one game, but how you perform over the whole season.

There are so many directors, young and old, around - all doing their thing and struggling.

I always wanted to be a femme fatale. Even when I was a young girl, I never really wanted to be a girl. I wanted to be a woman.

I was such a tomboy when I was young. I hated girls' clothes.

I actually like snakes! When I was young, I was a boy scout nature camp counselor, and one of our projects was collecting snakes and creating an environment for them, so I'm quite familiar with snakes and think they're fantastic creatures.

I was always fascinated with science, and being Persian, it's instilled in us at a young age to follow something very academic in our career.

I've always thought about it. I've considered it when I was young. I was like, 'Listen, I'm going to fight. I want to be a star. I'm going to fight.'

When I was young, I always enjoyed watching skilful players and trying to emulate them the same as everyone else.

Sometimes when you're young and a little more immature, you can overdo things or not really have your legs under you.

A couple of my friends had guitars, and I remember messing with them, but I was often intimidated by it. I think I sat down at a piano once when I was really young, but that was it.

The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

There are young children out there in our state, that could be Olympic champions at 2032 to think that Melbourne has hosted an Olympics, Sydney has hosted an Olympics, and now Queensland has that once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, we've got to give it everything we've got.

Each of us knows a few or several young people whose lives have been devastated by cancer. I don't mean to be nihilistic about it, but it is very much an active killer of people now.

A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable.

The origin of 'Lenny Letter,' it started because Lena went on her book tour, and she had these audiences, young women, really diverse and looking for guidance.

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.