People Power is too often an inverted fairy story - the triumph of innocence coming at the start and the Ugly Sisters of intrigue and ambition coming on stage in triumph for the final curtain.

We got the spell exactly right. Except for the ingredients. And most of the poetry. And it probably wasn’t the right time. And Gytha took most of it home for the cat, which couldn’t of been proper.

She tasted of coffee and day old poetry.

A job should lift workers out of poverty, not keep them in it.

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

I didn't choose to be an actress

Peace can be agreed around the conference table, but unless it grows in ordinary hearts and minds, it does not last. It may not even begin

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.

One minute we're over here, the next minute we're doing something completely different. But it's interesting because you are producing so many things you couldn't do with analog.

Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky.

Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.