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" I did a couple of plays at university, badly, where I made friends with Benedict Cumberbatch. When you see someone like him acting, it makes you think there's not much point in doing it yourself. "

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" Great broadcasting requires all of us, those who are in positions of power and especially those who are in positions to employ people, to remember you need to look towards the greatest conceivable palate to create greatness. "

Robert Rinder

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" No matter how excluded you have become from Christmas, it is a genuinely inclusive matter; frankly, you are conscripted into it. "

" The difficulty with American television is it's pot luck. "

" Even my trolls have started taking the trouble to spell their Tweets correctly, which is thoughtful. "

" Most people assume that when you go to court and win your case that you are guaranteed to get your money. Sadly, this isn't always the case. "

Robert Rinder

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" I dread my trial at the pearly gates - knowing my luck, I'll be hot on the heels of a blameless nun who will be ushered straight to a luscious cloud with prime sea views. "

" I can smell a liar like a fart in a lift! "

Robert Rinder

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" As a lawyer, I've dealt with really serious offences, and the public rarely hear what the true impact is on the victims' families. When you hear it from the mouths of victims, your entire approach changes, because it could happen to anybody, and they articulate that in such a powerful way. "

" I like people to be authentic, thoughtful, and honest. "

" Verbal contracts are about as useful as a fart on a treadmill. "

" The state of some of our roads is a matter of national embarrassment. "

" One of the things about being a law student is that the academic discipline of law is very often removed from the practical reality of law. How to complain, who to complain to, and whether or not you even need to invoke the law is very different in the real world from how it's examined in the lecture theatre. "

" I used to deal with high-profile criminal cases that were covered extensively in the media, and one of the things I quickly appreciated was there was a gulf between what really took place in the middle of a case, the impact on victims, the effect on the police and how they solved crimes, and the way it was reported. "

" Never trust people; always trust paper. I'd marry a piece of paper if I could. "

" When somebody teaches you to love something, you never forget that! It's such a generous thing to do. "

" I really want to emphasise this - 'Strictly' is a positive show. It's interesting that it gets cast into this, understandably, the ordinary net of reality shows, but there's no part of it which feels nihilistic or unpleasant. It's all about learning something and doing well, and you feel this overwhelming sense of people wanting you to do well. "

" Acting, when it is good, can be transformative. "

" The law is the law whether you're dealing with a multi-million-pound fraud or a car deal where someone feels diddled because their exhaust falls off on the way home. "

" If you are a politician who styles yourself as a model of family virtue but are having a secret affair, you have no right to expect it to remain secret. "

" I give celebrity my undivided indifference. Now that it's here, there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. And people who complain about celebrity and any kind of privilege are, all of them, whinging morons, and they should keep their first-world problems to themselves. I feel very strongly about that. "

" Perhaps the people of Twitter are more amenable to your babbling than your immediate family, but that doesn't necessarily make digital communication a beneficial distraction when we have an immediate social environment. "

" Youthful beauty is a poor indicator of long-term appeal in a man. "

" I can conduct and play musical instruments, but dancers' counting is different - they only go to eight beats, which doesn't relate to a bar. "

" Learning about crime in great detail forces us to ask ourselves how it happened, how the victims and perpetrators got to that point, how the law works, how the police force functions. "

" I find it amusing when you look at plastic surgeons because they don't seem to have had anything done. "

" I was in the National Youth Theatre, too, but there was no dancing there. I was doing plays like 'Julius Caesar' and playing the lute very badly. "

" My grandfather wanted to remind us that freedom of expression is the fundamental ingredient for democracy, and all the rest is detail. It is the scaffolding around which every other freedom is based. "

" You can separate the church and state all you like, but Christmas is inescapable, and it's marvellous, and it's not going away. "

Robert Rinder

Christmas

You

" London and its people are famed for their incredible indifference to one another, but it's actually a charade that requires some effort to maintain. "

" Let's start spreading work experience and opportunities a little wider so that the photographers, writers, and TV producers of tomorrow are drawn from a broader section of society. "