"I suddenly realized I was racing around so much, I could never catch up with my life"

-- Pico Iyer

“While gazing at myself from yourself, I was beautiful.”
“It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.”

Source : "Mathematics in the Modern World". Scientific American, Vol 211, (p. 42), September 1964.
“An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth and beauty”
“I'm not trying to be a finger-wagger at society. I sort of start with myself.”
“Music didn't really hit me again until the '90s, when the dancehall scene got going. The '90s were perfect for me. I would have really liked to have had The Slits out in the '90s again, to do tours and albums, because I think the '90s was a brilliant decade for music.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“The best characters to play are the ones who have deep internal conflict.”

Source : "Comic-Con: George Blagden and Gustaf Skarsgard Talk VIKINGS, Favorite Moments from Season 1, and Tease Season 2". Interview with Connie Allen, collider.com. July 21, 2013.
“The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first page of a manuscript. If this is true, then the editorial system that prevails today stinks. And let's start reforming it.”
“Actors don't listen to each other. You're so obsessed with what you're saying or doing that the other person could be talking in Swahili and you wouldn't know.”

Source : "This much I know: Toby Stephens" by Emma John, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2010.

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