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Tunisia's responsibility, and especially that of its political and intellectual elites, is enormous. All the protagonists of the nation's social, cultural, economic and political life must work to overcome useless and counterproductive polarisation, and to find solutions to domestic, regional and international problems.

Theatre is different. We can spend two weeks around a table talking about subtext. In opera, there is a score, and people already know their parts. And they move differently. I find all this liberating.

Irish people give big hellos and very little goodbyes. Unless they're female, and then they spend five hours talking in the doorway to the person that's leaving their house.

The only two jobs I ever had were with Lester Flatt and Johnny Cash.

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

The secret of DNA's success is that it carries information like that of a computer program, but far more advanced. Since experience shows that intelligence is the only presently acting cause of information, we can infer that intelligence is the best explanation for the information in DNA.

Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.

Every time I go to Beirut, I see people and the quality of life going slowly from bad to worse, and from worse to even worse.

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

If I don't get along with Democrats, I'm sort of, like, out of business.

The deep roots never doubt spring will come.

I think pattern makers are some of the most underrated, undervalued people in fashion. They're the people who are sometimes the geniuses in designing clothing.

I feel burnout comes as a result of consistent over-simulation.

I’ll make Goyle do lines, it’ll kill him, he hates writing,” said Ron happily. He lowered his voice to Goyle’s low grunt and, screwing up his face in a look of pained concentration, mimed writing in midair. “I... must... not... look... like... a... baboon’s... backside.

With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he's in this groove. He's in touch with his heart.

Sergio Ramos looks great to me. He always looks after himself, and he's coming back in the shape you'd expect. He doesn't let himself go when he's away on holiday.

My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.

The courts have become grotesquely dictatorial and far too powerful.

Successful people bring about new things. Unsuccessful people move around things which were already created by those who can observe – those who can create something from nothing.

If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess’s playground.