“I think this is one bad side of a mirror; it helps us to see the reflection of the effects of our… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“I used to believe, when I was 'just' a reader, that writers, because they wrote books where truth was found, because they… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“I love science, current affairs, engines, bikes,lipsticks, human behaviour” — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
“Children should be taught about history not as is usually the case now, that this is the record of long past events,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Most people cannot stand being alone for long. They are always seeking groups to belong to, and if one group dissolves, they… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“...you’d be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.” — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
“And he thought how in all the cases he'd solved the heart of crime seemed closer to his waking dreams than his… — Richard Godwin Copy Share Image
Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“If you survey healing throughout history and across contemporary cultures, and even within our own culture, you will encounter an extraordinary and… — Michael Heap Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare's plays do not present easy solutions. The audience has to decide for itself. King Lear is perhaps the most disturbing in… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
“I like to go to Starbucks and watch the intellectuals. I observe them and their intellectualness. They in turn observe me drinking… — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
What I really learned from Tim Burton is that it's important to have your own person in a role because you can't… — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share Image
The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
“Young adults rebel against the pre-invented/ packaged world, but sooner or later they stop and they also become proponents of the tried… — Lukasz Laniecki Copy Share Image
“Among this bewildering multiplicity of ideals which shall we choose? The answer is that we shall choose none. For it is clear… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
People are disappearing from movies, and normal human behaviour is disappearing from movies... You are not always fighting a creature in life.… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
What's exciting about theatre is observing human behaviour. You're constantly making judgments about body language, the physical, the emotional, the intellectual. — Hattie Morahan Copy Share Image
“What every man should desire is an ugly woman with a beautiful heart, not a beautiful woman with an ugly heart.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I accepted that a new kind of hate had emerged, silent and disciplined, a racism tempered by loyalty cards and PIN numbers.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One evening we were exploring the Baths of Caracalla together, while debating the question of merit or demerit in human behaviour and… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
Modern economics is a set of formal models and equations purporting to fully determine human behaviour, at least in the economic realm.… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The first rule of world-building is available physics, which basically means that if you want it to feel real, it has to… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image