“We cannot allow the reputation of football and FIFA to be dragged through the mud any longer.” Quote by Sepp Blatter
“I like the idea of an open, international London that thrives on attracting hard-working, talented people but has the confidence to tell them they must play by the same rules as everyone else.” PeopleIdeasHardPlayHard WorkInternationalLondonThrive Author:Mohsin Hamid
“Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page.” ThinkingWritingLastsNightNextPlansPagesStrategyBlankNext DayAssaultNight TimeBlank Pages Author:Athol Fugard
“Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground.” NeedsKidsBoysRolesProudModelsRole ModelsBe ProudPlaygrounds Author:Athol Fugard
“How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I've always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown.” KnowsWritingLittlesFeltDarkWhiteConsciousnessKnownSeaCreatingFearlessBeachSandHopefulInsecureLaunchingWhite Sand Book:Notebooks, 1960-1977 Source: Notebooks, 1960-1977
“My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't have really a function as an artist, as a useful artist, in that anymore.” YearsArtistDemocracyFunctionDefinedErasApartheid Author:Athol Fugard
“I can't think of a single one of my plays that does not represent a coincidence between an external and an internal event. Something outside of me, outside even my own life, something I read in a newspaper or witness on the street, something I see or hear, fascinates me. I see it for its dramatic potential.” ThinkingDoeI CanPlayMy OwnStreetsEventsNewspapersWitnessDramaticInternalsCoincidenceMy Own Life Author:Athol Fugard
“From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.” TwoFatherInterestReaderFilledJazzVery GoodStorytellingTwo ThingsStorytellerPianistProvokedAvid Author:Athol Fugard