"The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship."

“The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.”

“Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.”

“Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep them out of it.”

Source : "Graham Parker on reuniting with The Rumour, constructing the flow of an album, and more". Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 27, 2012.

“I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.”

“There is no captive in a worse state than the one who is captivated by his worst enemy (Shaytan) and there is no prison which is tighter than the prison of hawa (desire) and there is no bond/fetter more strong than the bond of desire. How, then, will a heart which is captivated, imprisoned and fettered travel unto Allah and the Home of the Hereafter?”

“I certainly relate to Ygritte in the fact that she is so strong and also ruthless as well and I feel that especially within Game of Thrones, I think that as a show, it is one of the frontrunners for showing dominant female characters and making sure that men answer to women rather than the other way around.”

Source : "Game Of Thrones: Access' Countdown To Season 3 Q&A - Rose Leslie Talks Ygritte". Interview with Jolie Lash, www.accesshollywood.com. March 5, 2013.

“You have to write fiction that mirrors the actual world, which has people of all sorts in it.”

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“I like to have the screen full of color, twenty colors on the screen at once, fifty colors. There are no dominants despite what people have said.”