When I was eight, my mum found me humming to myself and scribbling on a scrap of paper. When she asked me what I was doing, I got shy. I was writing a Christmas song, and I had never shared my music with anyone before. Reluctantly, I sang it for her... and she loved it. Of course she did - she's my mum.
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"No matter what. You can't make me love you. NEIL GAIMAN The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world. NEIL GAIMAN The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We ke... NEIL GAIMAN It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning,... NEIL GAIMAN But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it? NEIL GAIMAN How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline. "I swear it," said the other mother. "I s... NEIL GAIMAN Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave. NEIL GAIMAN I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got ev... NEIL GAIMAN I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. NEIL GAIMAN You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen. 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NEIL GAIMAN I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll m... NEIL GAIMAN The enemy of idealism is zealotry. NEIL KINNOCK Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission. NEIL KENDALL New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it. NEIL SIMON If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. NEIL PEART Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance. JOHN NEIL It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut... NEIL ARMSTRONG We have no proof, but if we extrapolate, based on the best information we have available to us, we h... NEIL ARMSTRONG That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. NEIL ARMSTRONG For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you ... NEIL GERSHENFELD Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. NEIL ARMSTRONG For the past 15 years or so, British governments have tried to persuade the rest of us that the best... NEIL ASCHERSON I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to us... NEIL ARMSTRONG Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little ... NEIL ARMSTRONG Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sist... NEIL SIMON It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no cl... NEIL GAIMAN Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission. NEIL KENDALL God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which migh... NEIL GAIMAN In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand, NEIL ARMSTRONG Research is creating new knowledge. NEIL ARMSTRONG That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind. NEIL ARMSTRONG