"Itâ€™s always been in between the things I thought I was doing that the real work has happened."

-- William Kentridge

“I was a wild kid. I was left to climb trees. And you know those railways logs, they piled them up, six feet apart, and I'd jump from one to the other. Without a safety net! I was an incredible tomboy.”

Source : "Bassey is back". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2009.
“Itâ€™s a good poem if Iâ€™m a different person when Iâ€™m finished reading it.”
“It is said that it is far more difficult to hold and maintain leadership (liberty) than it is to attain it. Success is a ruthless competitor for it flatters and nourishes our weaknesses and lulls us into complacency. We bask in the sunshine of accomplishment and lose the spirit of humility which helps us visualize all the factors which have contributed to our success. We are apt to forget that we are only one of a team, that in unity there is strength and that we are strong only as long as each unit in our organization functions with precision.”
“The blues brings you back into the fold. The blues isn't about the blues, it's about we have all had the blues and we are all in this together.”
“The great test of life is ... not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage.”
“There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.”
“As you know, Bergson pointed out that there is no such thing as disorder but rather two sorts of order, geometric and living.”
“In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.”

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