"Bernard [Leach] knew Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Terry Frost, Peter Lanyon, Johnny Wells. I can think of a number of people that we met there just because we were living with Bernard. Some of them became our friends, particularly the younger artists, but we were privileged to at least meet and talk with the older artists also. And they would come to dinner, and we would simply be included in the conversation, which was quite fascinating."

-- Warren MacKenzie

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“Our future is our sense of common destiny.”

Source : "We in Turkey and the Middle East have replaced humiliation with dignity" by Ahmet Davutoglu, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2011.
“This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.”
“I can't really recreate or reconstruct exactly how or from where any of my characters originate, young or old, though chances are at least decent that once I name and begin to know them, young or old, I can then attempt to reveal each as psychologically complex and nuanced, and to speak through them, as William Matthews says, "What it feels like to be human."”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“You want a better, more fraternal, more just world? Well then, start building it: Who is stopping you? Build it inside yourself and around you, build it with those who want it. Build it small, and it will grow.”
“In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.”
“The national oil companies still want to acquire some expertise so they will outsource more, but not totally.”
“You can't do Shakespeare with a Southern accent, honey.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Circumstances and crises are God's tools to move you into your purpose and the maximizing of your potential.”

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