"Truly, the bench is a boon to idlers. Whoever first came up with the idea is a genius: free public resting places where you can take time out from the bustle and brouhaha of the city, and simply sit and watch and reflect."

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Source : "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2006.

Tom Hodgkinson

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“Laughter is the greatest music in the world and audiences come to my shows to escape the cares of life. They don't want to be embarrassed or insulted. They want to laugh and so do I - which is probably why it works.”

Source : "Dodd's Bolton bonus". Manchester Evening News Interview, www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk. February 15, 2007.
“So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did the news; I did everything. I did - played records.”
“When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.”
“the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon”
“No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.”

Source : "Faith precedes the miracle". Book by Spencer W. Kimball, 1972.
“All I thought about when I wrote my stories was, "I hope that these comic books would sell so I can keep my job and continue to pay the rent." Never in a million years could I have imagined that it would turn into what it has evolved into nowadays. Never.”
“Often, to be free means the ability to deal with the realities of one's own situation so as not to be overcome by them.”
“For me, the filmmaking should serve the story, first and foremost.”

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