Entraînement à la Grammaire Anglaise à Distance

1. The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun. (BC)

2. I don't live beyond my means. I enjoy luxury and I enjoy the privilege of it, when I can afford it, and I'm in the situation where it's been given to me, but I'm very conscious of what is wasteful. (BC)

3. Metaphorically speaking, it's easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other. (BC)

4. (On Sherlock) I thought they'd finally lost the plot, jumped the shark, all the other clichés of television gone mad with itself. Then they expanded the idea and pitched it to me properly and I think it's fantastic. Absolutely brilliant. (BC)

5. The first time we did cavalry charge I was so breathless with excitement I nearly fell off the horse. (BC)

6. Though the 34-year-old British actor has made a name for himself in British films and mini-series, he's largely unknown in the US. (Michelle Kung)

7. Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes. (BC)

8. Growing up, my dad read it to me, and it was a real treat, a feast for a child's imagination. He did an amazing Smaug, and hobbits, and Gandalf as well – it's the audiobook that will never exist. (BC)

9. I think intelligence services have really struggled post-Iraq with credibility, and I feel for them to a certain degree. They are trying to protect our right to exist. (BC)