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The strength of 'The Gift' is that the people featured and their stories are given the space to speak for themselves.

— Mel Giedroyc

The Gift' doesn't deal with the neat, tie-me-up-with-a-bow kind of stories - they are grittier, messier, and not all of them have a happy…

— Mel Giedroyc

It was an honour to be asked to do 'The Gift.' The producers took a risk asking me because, coming from a comedy background,…

— Mel Giedroyc

The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is…

— Max Beerbohm

“What we notice in stories is the nearness of the wound to the gift.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Sometimes your gift takes you to a place that your character is not prepared to handle.

— Kwame Kilpatrick

“Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's…

— Paulina Porizkova

I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those…

— George Eliot

In a nutshell, directing 'The Gift' was all about understanding how the complex machine that is 'Game of Thrones' works.

— Miguel Sapochnik

When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the…

— Cate Blanchett

Not an easy story but an important one. Compelling, powerful and engaging.

— Eric Walters

I should like, if I could, to leave a humble gift -- a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some noble moods.

— Max Ehrmann