"Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique."

“Reforms are slow, but they never go backward.”

“Information is the currency of democracy.”

“Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.”

Source : "Samantha Morton: 'I could play a prostitute convincingly because my best friend was one'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2010.

“I always try to stay objective, and to remove myself from the process and look at the film again.”

“There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.”

“One day you look out and the audience consists of 65,000 people. It's like looking in the mirror and one day you realise you've gone grey.”

Source : "'We've put in more hours than anyone': The Black Keys interviewed" by Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.

“We must recognize the full human equality of all our people - before God, before the law, and in the councils of government. We must do this not because it is economically advantageous - although it is; not because the laws of God and man command it - although they do command it; not because people in other lands wish it so. We must do it for the single and fundamental reason that it is the right thing to do.”

“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.”