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" I sometimes think the only true record of England is the 'Cumberland News.' "

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" We got a copy of the 'New Statesman' at my grammar school in Wigton, Cumbria, in the 1950s. It sat mint fresh every week on the library table, with two or three other bargain-offer magazines. The 'Statesman' came out of the unimaginable Great World. I started to read it then and have pegged along ever since. "

" It is in our culture that we don't want to admit that our culture is good. "

" Now, perfectly ordinary people will give each other hugs. I mean, it used to be that a hug was reserved for if you came back from Australia - you know, back in the '40s and '50s. "

" 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. "

" What artists are doing, and what people who are receiving the arts are doing, is entering into this agreement to occupy a parallel world. The parallel world is ever-expanding. We used to think that it existed only for people who were wealthy, well-born, or educated. It isn't like that. "

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

" The class barricades have been stormed by the forces of a broad culture, which is made up of clusters of individuals who have decided for themselves what they will be in society. "

" Work is a great blotter up. It stops you thinking, which is useful. No, it stops you feeling. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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 idea that popular arts were shallow by definition and the traditional arts were profound was dead, I thought, and I wanted to prove it. "

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

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

" 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 got the job I wanted when I was 22, and I'm not going to give it up now. "

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

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

" The success of the arts has come through a mix of public subsidy, substantial private support, and good box-office receipts, but central to Labour's post-1997 programme has been a determination to increase access as much as excellence. "

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

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

" Darwin talks about evolution, but he doesn't say how it started. Maybe the sense of mystery will dissolve in the face of science, but I am not so sure. We are all described by the human genome, but it's getting people nowhere. "

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

" 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. "

" I am 74 now. Looking back, I have a sense of not really being in control of my career. I just went where it took me. "

" 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. "

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

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