"When I was a small child and adults asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I always beamed and said, ‘A vegetar…"

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"

"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"

"I don't really know how to act, I kind of wanted to somehow make it real, and one of the ways I've always thought mak…"

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"

"When men live in small communities, ... they cannot avoid personal participation in some public functions. So it was …"

"It is impossible to maintain that these attributes [caution and progress] have been constant in the two great English…"

"His bright spirits and kindly genial ways, the outward expression of a soul which combined with its deep sense of rel…"

"Wherever she went, Vita collected seeds and roots and s, and always travelled with a and a few potatoes into which sh…"

"The Great Parterre at , planted by , was abolished by , a priceless piece of history lost."