"If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is changing."

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Source : "What keeps Roddy rooted" by Nicci Gerrard, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2001.

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“The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything.”
“But we were doing plays and movies which I had nothing to do with other than being a producer, and I don't have that kind of interest or time any more.”
“By healing our internal divisions and fully accepting ourselves as we are, we learn to accept and empower our sexual core, and we learn to honor our unique expression of Masculine and Feminine gifts. We fully incarnate in our bodies, at home and at ease in a man's body or a woman's body. And we learn to love with complete abandon, as free men and women, without rules or roles or guarded hearts.”
“Faith will get in the ditch with you, faith will go in the prison with you, faith will go into divorce court with you, faith will go in the hospital with you, faith will go in the nursing home with you.”
“If a dish doesn't turn out right, change the name and don't bat an eyelid. A fallen souffle is only a risen omelette. It depends on the self-confidence with which you present it.”
“Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises”
“All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.”
“He may delay because it would not be safe to give us at once what we ask: we are not ready for it. To give ere we could truly receive, would be to destroy the very heart and hope of prayer, to cease to be our Father. The delay itself may work to bring us nearer to our help, to increase the desire, perfect the prayer, and ripen the receptive condition.”

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