"I started making houses for ants because I thought they needed somewhere to live. Then I made them shoes and hats. It was a fantasy world I escaped to where my dyslexia didn't hold me back and my teachers couldn't criticize me. That's how my career as a micro-sculptor began."

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Source : "Buzz Aldrin Needle Sculpture Created By English Artist Willard Wigan" by Leonard David, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2013.

Willard Wigan

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“The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitue for anything resembling an urban policy.”
“As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the highway' philosophy, you realize it's all about compromising and finding some sort of middle ground that everyone can live with.”
“I'm a pretty strange guy, so it takes a pretty strange thing to make me think that somebody else is strange. I'm really looking forward to something strange happening to me, but it hasn't really happened yet. The strangest thing someone ever told me was that they were watching our show, and they said they should have worn diapers.”
“My whole life is reading tabloid magazines. Itâ€™s really sad, because thatâ€™s what my show is all about â€” what is going on with celebrities. So I have to know everything.”
“You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.”
“Simplicity is not the absence of clutter,”

Source : "Sir Jonathan Ive: The iMan cometh". Interview with Mark Prigg, www.standard.co.uk. March 12, 2012.
“Often, the more money you make the more money you spend; that's why more money doesn't make you rich - assets make you rich.”
“I know I'd rather have any amount of time with a dog I love and suffer the mourning than not have the time at all.”

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