Quotes about "Resilience & Adversity"

After I had prostate cancer, I had something which was misdiagnosed which led to a load of back operations. ”

A couple of back operations didn't cure anything, but instead, things got worse and worse and worse. ”

One would be lying if one didn't say that one had melodies that I keep in my back pocket. ”

We felt we had to know something of his back story. I don't think people in the cinema would just accept that he's there. I think we had to learn how he (got there). ”

They should go back to the medieval tradition, which is that the nave of the church is always used for local business. ”

I think back at the time, if it had been 1988, I would have thought Michael and Sarah probably would have been cast but I don't think, I think it's much better that the girl is younger and if Sarah would have been 26 or 27 then. ”

I began to think, now is the time. I found quite a lot of opposition in Hollywood about the idea of doing a film musical and we ended up having to buy the rights back. I'm glad we did because it meant John and I were able to make exactly the movie we wanted. ”

You never think about your own mortality. At least not until your back gives way when you're 40. ”

Not reforming the NHS would have been a much easier decision for me as secretary of state to have taken. We could have just protected the NHS from cuts, put in an extra £12.5bn and left it there. But sooner or later the cracks would have started to show. New treatments would have been held back. ”

All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest. ”