I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.
Football is a simple game. It's just very hard to play it simple.
There are very few players who know what to do when they're not marked. So sometimes you tell a player: that attacker is very good, but don't mark him.
In small space a player has to be capable of acting quickly. A good player who needs too much time can suddenly become a poor player.
To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent
Playing against 10 is harder than playing against 11 players. You know why? The team with 11 will think "ok, we can take it easy now", while the team with 10 will think "We really have to work hard now. "
If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.
We have to argue forcefully and demand that the government recognise that these programmes do not prevent - mass surveillance does not prevent acts of terrorism.
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are
I just liked the feeling of being on stage.
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.