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I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as a career.

"Idris Elba: 'My film about Nelson Mandela is hands down the best'". Interview with Stuart Heritage, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2013.

A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces.

Howard Staunton (1873). “The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters, and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions”, p.34

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

Horace (1928). “Horace on the Art of Poetry: Latin Text, English Prose Translation, Introduction and Notes, Together with Ben Jonson's English Verse Rendering”

A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size, shape, and direction.

Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.195, Univ of California Press

There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.

Harriet Martineau (2015). “Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (Vol. I: Abridged, Annotated)”, p.411, BIG BYTE BOOKS