"I have always struggled with expressing emotion, I used to think I was a very hard person but music has shown me I'm a big softy! Writing songs to me really is like writing a diary, it's very private and very personal. My most emotional songs have been written alone in a locked room, I'm able to express myself there."

-- Roxanne Emery

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“Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God.”
“Pure friendship's well-feigned blush.”
“Thereâ€™s a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but itâ€™s really just the inability to carry on clambering through the assault course of mundane cause and effect. If we ask Sheila then we canâ€™t ask Ron. If I have the kippers now then itâ€™s quiche for tea. Four score years is about all the ifs and thens you can take. Dementiaâ€™s the sane realisation you just canâ€™t be doing with all that anymore.”
“I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.”
“Stones taught me to fly, love taught me to lie, life taught me to die, so it's not hard to fall when you flow like a cannonball”
“We believe in taking down the barriers, but we also believe in the most energetic reconciliation among peoples by getting them to know each other, talk each other's languages, understand each other's fears and beliefs, getting to know each other physically, philosophically, and spiritually. It is much harder to kill your near neighbor than the thousands of unknown and hostile aliens at the other end of a nuclear missile. We have to create a world in which there are no unknown, hostile aliens at the other end of any missiles.”

Source : Betty Williams' Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1977.
“It's certainly important to include text beside documentary photographs. Furthermore, it's important to include text in a way that's useful and accessible.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I'm a bit of a Luddite and I hate the internet.”

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