"When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences."

-- Frederick Sanger

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“There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.”
“The bias against the show is purely elitist. We're all like the people on the show - the difference is that some of us speak better, or were born richer. There's nothing that happens on my show that rich people don't experience.”

Source : Interview with Rebecca Hardy, Daily Mail 'Weekend' magazine, June 27, 2009.
“Why do you need to drive a Ferrari to get stuck in a traffic jam anyway? How do people afford these cars?”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2009.
“Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer.”
“Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the ability to evaluate literature outside the critical act. A work is good only in proportion to the richness and complexity of interpretations it provokes.”

Source : Dana Gioia (2002). “Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture”, Graywolf Pr
“He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with downcast eye steps on it, unknowing. He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.”
“All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses the truth about the existence regardless of whether this truth serves or hinders the survival purpose of a given society. All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.”
“I've worked on high visibility shows that weren't always the best, and low visibility shows that I love but that didn't have the PR behind them.”

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