"Making the simple complex doesn't take ingenuity. Making the complex simple, now, that's ingenuity!"

“She'd tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty.”

Source : "Yeats Is Dead! by Anthony Cronin, Roddy Doyle et al, Joseph O'Connor". www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2001.

“I'm single and looking and failing miserably. I'm keeping my options open.”

“Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.”

“Why do we have to wait for special moments to say nice things or tell people we care about them?”

“I am not an animal! I am a human being! I…am…a man!”

“For me, it’s like playing the same instrument but in a different context. TV work – it’s really about getting it just right. You have a chance to try again if it’s not. Theatre is like playing a rock show. It doesn’t really matter if you make a tiny mistake. It’s the whole vibe and getting people to feel you. It’s about carrying the moment through all the way with you in an hour and 20 minutes of the narrative.”

“There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it. We are led on and on, and yet in some strange way we never lose control.”

Source : Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.10, Harvard University Press

“The Fascist State lays claim to rule in the economic field no less than in others; it makes its action felt throughout the length and breadth of the country by means of its corporate, social, and educational institutions, and all the political, economic, and spiritual forces of the nation, organised in their respective associations, circulate within the State.”