“We all hope that TV will bring something added to the book - not just an audience - it will bring an interpretation and skills that you may not have as a writer.” MayBookAudienceTvsSkillsInterpretation Author:Gerald Seymour
“I'm not a journalist any more. I don't have to stick a microphone up somebody's nostril and I don't have a camera lens behind my shoulder, I think people talk to me in a much franker way.” PeopleThinkingWayBehindsCamerasSticksShouldersJournalistLensesTalk To MeMicrophonesCamera Lenses Author:Gerald Seymour
“I think we need to grow in our self-assurance that is not scared of being challenged, that the truth we uphold can stand up to the closest possible scrutiny.” ThinkingNeedsSelfGrowsScaredClosestAssuranceScrutinySelf Assurance Author:Desmond Tutu
“We are all connected. What unites us is our common humanity. I don't want to oversimplify things - but the suffering of a mother who has lost her child is not dependent on her nationality, ethnicity or religion. White, black, rich, poor, Christian, Muslim or Jew - pain is pain - joy is joy.” WantChildrenChristianPainJoyMotherSufferingHumanityLostBlackWhitePoorCommonRichJewConnectedDependentNationalityEthnicityRich PoorCommon Humanity Author:Desmond Tutu
“I am one of the world's dreadful technophobes. I was on the internet, but it's broken down and I've unplugged it.” WorldBrokenInternetDown AndBroken Down Author:Gerald Seymour
“The desire to succeed has a lot less compulsion than the fear of failure.” DesireSucceedCompulsionFear Of FailureDesire To Succeed Author:Gerald Seymour
“I don't tend to redraft, I will try to tidy it up, but basically I feel what I write down first has got the impetus, it may be clumsy, it may be repetitive, but a good editor can take that out. That first writing bit is the best thing you will do.” FeelsWritingTryingFirstsMayBitsBest ThingsEditorsClumsyTidyRepetitiveImpetus Author:Gerald Seymour
“As Elders, we are fully committed to the principle that all human beings are of equal worth. You will see that we highlight equality for girls and women - not just women's rights. That is important as girls, especially adolescent girls, have been almost invisible in debates on equal rights. Yet it is in adolescence that events can have a huge effect on a girl's life.” HumansHas BeensImportantGirlHuman BeingsPrinciplesRightsEffectsEventsHugeEqualCommittedDebateInvisibleWomens RightsAdolescenceEldersEqual RightsHighlights Author:Mary Robinson
“It is quite exhilarating to speak about a God who has an incredible bias, a notorious bias in favor of the downtrodden. You look at Exodus and the Israelites' escape from a bottomless pit. God is not evenhanded. God is biased up to his eyebrows.” LooksSpeakIncrediblesFavorsBiasEyebrowsPitsExhilaratingBiasedNotoriousDowntroddenExodus Author:Desmond Tutu
“As Elders we have great respect for all religions and traditions as important forces that bind people together. Faith and tradition provide much of the foundation of our laws and social codes. But where religion and tradition are used to justify discrimination and especially when they are used to justify cruel and harmful practices such as female genital mutilation, infanticide and child marriage, then we believe that is unacceptable.” PeopleBelieveChildrenImportantTogetherLawUsedForceSocialPracticeFemaleTraditionFoundationDiscriminationCodeJustifyEldersGreat RespectMutilationInfanticide Author:Mary Robinson