"I went to see Roma people in Hungary, so I could understand them."

“Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.”

“We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest--blank; and the world tells uswhat we are to be, and shapes us by the ends it sets before us. To you it says--Work; and to us it says--Seem! To you it says--As you approximate to man's highest ideal of God, as your arm is strong and your knowledge great, and the power to labour is with you, so you shall gain all that human heart desires. To us it says--Strength shall not help you, nor knowledge, nor labour. You shall gain what men gain, but by other means. And so the world makes men and women.”

Source : Olive Schreiner (1896). “The Story of an African Farm: A Novel”

“We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.”

“The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.”

“I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.”

“There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.”

“People always want reasons for things ... but sometimes there are no reasons.”

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“You remember the finals you lose as much as the ones you win.”

Source : "Chelsea's history man Frank Lampard focuses on honours not contracts" by Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2013.