"From the outside, people think it's drug-related. But wherever you come from, people are driven by a sense of belonging. What I say to kids all the time is you don't own streets. We don't own the paving stones we are fighting over. Instead of fighting each other, you should be fighting the government to make this a better place to live."

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Source : "Damilola's dad Richard Taylor and ex-bad boy rapper Ashley Walters face-to-face". Interview with Richard Taylor, www.mirror.co.uk. March 31, 2008.

Ashley Walters

#Kids Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The hallmark of an authoritarian idiot is yelling TERRORIST-LOVER! at anyone questioning the definition of Terrorist.”
“There's bad people since the beginning of time. Literally one of the first four human beings was someone who killed somebody. So that's never going to change, unfortunately.”

Source : "People Told Me to Shut Up and Play Football". "Hang Up and Listen" with Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca, www.slate.com. July 18, 2016.
“Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.”
“Obviously not a Stephen King level writer, but I'd written short stories and short fiction, from the time I was 12.”
“Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 4, 2012
“The last word always belongs to the audience... that blessed connection... that is a most powerful feeling. One that is worth savouring on dark nights when the wind blows. On the other hand there is no way of ever knowing when one steps out into that circle, if the connection will be made. The promise is there, the hope is there, but no certainty whatsoever. Which is, I suppose, the attraction. That connection, when it happens, is magic. When it doesn't... Turn out the lights.”

Source : "Ruth Cracknell: a biased memoir".
“We Christians are debtors to all men at all times in all places, but we are so smug to the lostness of men. We've been 'living in Laodicea,' lax, loose, lustful, and lazy. Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living.”
“I love being a mum but I do love to work too.”

Source : "Jenny Frost: I'm sure Mum is watching over me and shaping my life". www.mirror.co.uk. November 11, 2010.

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