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" Craig has explored the darker recesses of 007's psyche. He has shown us the lonely man. And he has shown him falling truly in love. "

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" Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow. "

" Control, like curiosity, can be an exterminator. "

" 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? "

" I have written favourably in support of subsidy for the arts since the 1960s, and I continue to believe absolutely in subsidy, as I do in the BBC licence fee. "

" The theatre always seems to be in trouble but always thriving. It's deeply comical to me that we agonize about our crap football teams and indifferent Test sides when in front of our noses is a great world success story that no one's interested in apart from those who work in it. "

" I don't get nervous when I'm interviewing someone on film - it can be cut, and we can do it again. It is quite nerve-racking doing things live. "

" Autobiographical fiction is very tricky. "

Autobiographical

" A lot of the novels I admire are 'admirably provincial.' "

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

" We listened to a lot of drama, adaptations of books, comedy. There was a real love of music expressed in choirs, because you didn't have to have instruments except your voice. "

" 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. "

" Connery made Bond real through his physicality. He did most of his own stunts and fights, and the audience knew it was him. "

" Few places on earth have been as affectionately alchemised into literature as the Lake District. "

" 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. "

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

" Television, above all, is the place where people can see the world they live in, and if the world they live in is a world without the arts, so much the worse for television, and so much the worse for the viewers. "

" People in jobs that they hate must be worn out. "

" There are two big beasts in the arts: the BBC and Sky Arts - challenging, leading the way. "

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

" You ask 20 of your friends how English and American democracy came about. None of them would say that Anglicanism or Protestantism had anything to do with it. But it was crucial to it! "

" In 1997, the Labour government set out to strengthen funding for the arts - and achieved it. "

" I actually admire some of the books by a lot of the writers who write magic realism very much, but it's not for me. It's not what I can do, but even if I could, I don't really want to try. "

" I'm going to try and make you take the Beatles and Eric Clapton as seriously as the Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle. "

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

" Love of place is one of the characteristics I enjoy most about novelists. "

" In the 40 or so years I've known David Puttnam, not only has he pursued an outstanding career in films and now politics, but he has been the keeper of the flame of the British film industry. "

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

" My memory seems to be holding on quite well. There is no reason why it shouldn't if you keep training it. "

" In music, the Specials brought a city, Coventry, bombed out for a second time and riven with racism, to a celebration between black and white musicians and their music. "

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" I'm a class mongrel. "