"I think I'm the most underrated superstar that's out there, but that doesn't matter to me."

“The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move.”

“Give me the death of my soul. Intoxicate me with self-love.”

Source : Austin Osman Spare (2007). “The Writings of Austin Osman Spare: Anathema of Zos, the Book of Pleasure and the Focus of Life”, p.18, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

“Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.”

“Dont talk to the crazy kids. I longed to shout back that we weren't crazy. I'd mistaken her kid for a ghost, that's all.”

“Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester's velodrome, the National Cycling Centre.”

Source : "Manchester's sporting success led to Team GB's Olympic glory" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2008.

“In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.”

“When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous because I couldn't control what came through it.”

“My job is to create a film, where we are capturing truth in performances.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Naomie Harris and Justin Chadwick Talk The First Grader" by B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. May 10, 2011.