I’ve always just admired women who were able to navigate through dramatic and comedic waters and sort of do it all. Ari Graynor Read Quote
I’m not entirely sure why I write about family, but I do know that it hasn’t stopped interesting me. You meet and leave other people at different stages of your evolution, whereas family is made up of people who are constant links in your life, who know you over the course of time and have your complete curriculum vitae in their heads. Antonya Nelson Read Quote
Locking people up without reducing the risk of them committing new crimes against new victims the minute they get out does not make for intelligent sentencing. Kenneth Clarke Read Quote
From nine years old, I lived with fear. I saw our neighbours disappearing. I was scared that I would come home from school and my parents would not be there. Alek Wek Read Quote
What artists are doing, and what people who are receiving the arts are doing, is entering into this agreement to occupy a parallel world. The parallel world is ever-expanding. We used to think that it existed only for people who were wealthy, well-born, or educated. It isn’t like that. Melvyn Bragg Read Quote
We need to reaffirm that politics is not merely compatible with economic progress and development in the 21st century, but essential to it. David Blunkett Read Quote
I used to go online all the time, and then I had to stop myself… because I’m a writer, and it’s like: to have a procrastination tool, like, within my computer… it was just getting too hairy. Mike White Read Quote
At school in the 1970s, no one cared about bullying. I spent the first four years being the apple of the teachers’ eye and being bullied for it. Mel Giedroyc Read Quote
