"In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer."

-- Oscar Wilde

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“If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.”
“Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.”
“I saw them with my bodily eyes as clearly as I see you. And when they departed, I used to weep and wish they would take me with them.”
“Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.”
“I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that will prompt me to alter various ideas I have about human evolution.”

Source : "The Quest for Human Origins". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.
“The free society does not guarantee virtue, any more than it guarantees happiness. But it allows for the pursuit of both, a pursuit rendered all the more meaningful and profound because success is not guaranteed, it has to be won through personal striving.”
“I think there's an audience for The Wombles at almost all levels. We thought it was going to be confined to people in their late twenties, early thirties, who remembered it from before - they were maybe 10 or 12 in the Seventies when it was happening.”

Source : Press launch of The Wombles Collection, www.tidybag.uk. November 2000.
“Normally, I do magic on the stage. But I can make magic credible and resonate through a TV screen.”

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