It’s annoying when you’ve got a guitar and you’re working on music and then you have to go and do the shopping or someone calls your mobile and you get distracted or you have to go out and do something. Michael Kiwanuka Read Quote
Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond – had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level. Paul Muldoon Read Quote
I am myself sometimes, and I do state my opinions, but not in a comedy routine and not in my character. There always has to be some sort of layer to it. Ricky Gervais Read Quote
But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality – a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature. Norman McLaren Read Quote
I am what I do, and that’s partly why I don’t want to give up singing. But when I can’t sing well, I will. Don McLean Read Quote
I understand that world hunger can’t be cured by us all going out and hunting our own food – but it certainly taught me respect for the environment and for the animals that call it home. Brad Leone Read Quote
Through the 1990s, the fracturing of Tasmanian Aboriginal politics was given impetus by the ongoing corruption of a number of black organisations started under federal government programmes, with large amounts of public money being lost. Richard Flanagan Read Quote
All right, every day ain’t going to be the best day of your life, don’t worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days. Wendell Berry Read Quote