"The ordinary manner of spending their time, is the only way of judging of people's inclination and genius."

“That kind of friendship doesn't just materialize at the end of the rainbow one morning in a soft-focus Hollywood haze. For it to last this long, and at such close quarters, some serious work had gone into it. Ask any ice-skater or ballet dancer or show jumper, anyone who lives by beautiful moving things: nothing takes as much work as effortlessness.”

“When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it.”

“The goal of all dressage riding should be to bring the horse and rider together in harmony...a oneness of balance, purpose, and athletic expression.”

“Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.”

Source : Alan Ayckbourn (1988). “The Norman Conquests: A Trilogy of Plays”, p.9, Grove Press

“Afraid is a country with no exit visas ...”

“When you're not smoking anymore, you don't have to carry around a pack of cigarettes, a lighter - all this paraphernalia. So you're liberated in a certain sense. It's the same with drinking.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“A nation needs to know how to utilise talent.”

“If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.”