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I adore Biarritz. I first went there in the Eighties, and my wife and I liked it so much that we ended up buying a holiday home there. ”
I'm not a big fan of the Mediterranean, but being in the Bay of Biscay, the sea is forever changing, and on a clear day, you see as far as Spain. It's incomparable. ”
I especially like the Padstow area and the south coast near Portloe. It's lovely, though I do wish it was a bit closer to London. ”
Drama at Bristol was an academic course: you were judged on your A-levels, and there were no auditions. I did a BA General degree. ”
I seem to get cast as one of two extremes. Either I play the butch heavy or totally nice guys. ”
You never learn to act in front of a camera. You never learn anything in front of a camera. But you learn to act in a rehearsal room with a good play and a good cast and a good director. ”
When you've won the war, you're faced with the problem of winning the peace. ”
Being able to pit your wits against literally hundreds of other people is really exciting and ultimately the biggest single challenge for a poker player. ”
I came up with the idea that I wanted to develop products because I saw services businesses being a dead end long term. ”
A writer's obligation is to invent: to go beyond what did happen and to look at what could have happened but didn't. Fiction writers are born liars. ”