Gossipgate Art Gallery - Art gallery in Alston, Cumbria, specialising in the work of contemporary artists and craftspeople from the North of England, selling paintings, sculpture, jewellery, glass, pottery, wood and textiles.
Sue Sharp - Ceramic Artist - Sue Sharp - potter from Alston - mainly domestic ware such as mugs, plates, bowls and tiles. All the pieces are hand made and decorated.
David Baillie - Wildcat Films - Freelance lighting cameraman with over ten years experience. Credits include most of the main documentary series on BBC and C4. Wildcat Films is an independent production company, making news reports from some of the world's most remote and inaccessible places.
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-- Adlai Stevenson My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
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-- G. K. Chesterton The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
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Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
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Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
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Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
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-- Di Peatlins Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
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- Albert Einstein "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Arts and Entertainment In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
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Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
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-- Josh Billings The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
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