"History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them in a simple form."

“I love Hollywood films and when they're done right, they're great. At the same time, I think it's always hard to come on to something that preexists.”

“I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.”

Source : "Ken Livingstone: 'It's an autobiography, not porn'". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

“Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct.”

“Any doorway that leads you to a deeper understanding of who you are is worthwhile.”

“the sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time.”

“Coffee: we can get it anywhere, and get as loaded as we like on it, until such teeth-chattering, eye-bulging, nonsense-gibbering time as we may be classified unable to operate heavy machinery.”

“Christians belong in American politics because there is not and cannot be a fundamental separation between our moral vocation and our citizenship.”

“I was like the good girl, bad girl, there were no grey areas for me.”

Source : "Belinda Carlisle details debauchery in memoir" by Christine Kearney, Reuters, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 8, 2010.