This, she thought, was what love and desperation made you do: say things that were better left unsaid, give yourself away in a million little gestures, a thousand little changes of expression.

When I let go of my own work, my own priorities, I lost the qualities he had been attracted to in the first place. That's how he put it. He loved the woman I was before I was in love with him.

No matter who you are or what you do, there will always be some people who don't like you

I love Adele. Natasha Bedingfield is cool, those sort of people.

A frog in a well does not know the great sea.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

It is in its pure form that an art hits hard.

I like to think that there is a clear majority of people who's be supportive of the idea, It does save the existing industry. It does provide hundreds of millions of dollars for the Commonwealth.

But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.