My knitting is simple", he said again. Ï can make anything you want with it, but it will always be simple.

Real life is like that - it does not follow a neat plan. sometimes you have to get things very messily wrong so you can see how to get them right.

You are likely to lose the heat of your passion irrespective of how hot it was when you surrender yourself to a leader with lukewarm attitude.

Beating yourself up over every perceived mistake is the work of an internal abuser who must be restrained and reformed.

I am a haystack in a needle of time.

I believe there's nothing I can't accomplish.

I thought then and I think now that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust and I think the premises on which it was launched were false.

You can't help but feel a little bit like a mother to the younger cast members.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster, become absorbed in the work itself but never absorb the work ethos.