“Behind every great woman is a man who tried to stop her.”
“It was a chain of stories clinging to stories, of love clinging to love. It was an inheritance he did not know how to pass on.”
“I imagined he was the type of boy who wondered about things, as I did, who broke his heart wondering about things...”
“We have reached a time where each of us must rise to the challenges that confront us. It is time for us to change.”
“Life will become more pleasant and comfortable if we get rid of some of the abundance.”
“Memory and forgetting: these are the faculties of mind by which we are aware of time, and time is a mystery”
Rupert Everett performance
“If I had my life to live over again, I would form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death.”
Colin Firth introduces The People Speak
Watch Catherine Chanter talking about her debut novel The Well
“She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.”
Celia Imrie performance