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" Compared to the big 19th-century novelists, I've got a slim volume of work. "

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" It's amazing that Sky is the only place that has two dedicated arts channels. The BBC is doing very well... but why don't they do more? "

" A structure is a bit like a story. People will go along with you - they see where you're going. "

" It is very difficult for middle-aged, institutionalised males who have done so well out of subsidy - and, fair play, given much back - to realise that there is a time to be a well-heeled revolutionary. "

" I wanted 'The South Bank Show' to reflect my own life and that of the team around me; to stretch the accepted boundaries and challenge the accepted hierarchies of the arts; to include pop music as well as classical music, television drama as well as theatre drama, and high-definition performers in comedy. "

" There's a lot of hours in the week if you use them properly. "

" I've been making arts programmes for almost 50 years, and every day, I can't believe my luck. "

" I don't want closure, I don't know what that means or why you would want it. "

" The best of pop in our country is among the best of the arts that we do. And Britain does the arts as well as, and sometimes better than, anybody else on the planet. "

" That's why writing is important to me. Time goes past, and you've been somewhere and come back that hasn't hurt you, and you've been somebody else. "

" I was born in a radio world, and I got so much from it. "

" My life is not very different from what it was 20 years ago. In fact, my career hasn't changed much since I was 22. "

" We start out as sand and soot out there in the universe, and who knows, in 40 trillion years' time we might come back. But if we come back without memory, it doesn't really interest me. "

" The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other things happen. "

" The abolition of slavery was driven by the King James Bible. It gave slaves a common language and purpose. "

" Autobiographical fiction is very tricky. "

Autobiographical

" I was brought up in a strong working-class community by working-class parents and relations until I was 18, and that's what I really am. Now all sorts of things have been added, but that's what I am. "

" I'll never forget my interview with Barry Humphries - one of the oddest I've ever done. He insisted that for half the time he appeared as Dame Edna. So I interviewed the real Barry Humphries in a suit and tie, and then I interviewed Edna in full fig in her dressing room, where she criticised Barry mercilessly. "

" In an arts programme, my job was to go where the talent was. And the talent was in popular culture. "

" In the 1990s, from the estates of Scotland came the phenomenon of Irvine Welsh. 'Trainspotting' demanded its place not only in the high ranks of contemporary fiction but as a describer of a Britain that literally and metaphorically was in a deep mess. "

" The BBC does a sterling job, but I'd like to see it do more. ITV does four arts programmes a year; it used to be 28. At least Sky, with its two arts channels, is trying. "

" If you look at the creative economy in this country, it's per capita way bigger than any other in the world. "

" I don't believe in a personal God, no. And I don't believe in resurrection as it is in the New Testament. "

" Like university science departments, the arts have shown how they can earn their way and point to an economically newborn future for this country. They show that the U.K. could be a prime provider of imaginative riches and intellectual adventure, which I think are the two great prizes of the 21st century. "

" I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even those who came from it. "

" As the 20th century unspooled, a cultural warming melted down many frozen class characteristics. "

" I don't feel like I'm slowing down. "

" In a sense, Bond ousted the cowboy as the screen hero, and Ken Adams replaced the horse with technology. "

" I do think the BBC could do more, but I've always thought the BBC could do more - I think there should be more arts programmes full stop. "

" I decided years ago that I am just unfashionable. "

" I'm a Labour party supporter, but I'm also a democrat. "