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" My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home in woodland as they are in a city. "
Clive Anderson
Perfect
Home
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" Well, I was very lucky. I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course. "
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" I'm pale-skinned so I don't feel at my best on a beach. "
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" I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object. "
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" Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult. "
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" I am attached to the west coast of Scotland - it's gorgeous to look at and challenging. You have to contend with the possibility of being blown away or rained on. And in the summer months you can be eaten alive by midges. "
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You
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" I have done well out of TV, but not well enough to buy football clubs. I'm not sure it's ever a way to make money. "
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" I don't think I'm really a rude person, but now I see myself on television, I think, 'Oh, God, that is a bit strong.' And I wonder if I've always been like that and I haven't been aware of it. "
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Wonder
Think
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" I try to make myself walk around a bit, but I probably think about it more than I actually do it. Years ago, I did think about joining a gym. "
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" I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We're just another remote country that hardly impinges on some places at all. "
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Places
Remember
China
" If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support. "
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Rich
Support
You
" I do find myself surprised by the comedy shows that seem to have the same joke week in week out. "
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Week
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Find
" It is a bit frustrating. Things come and go in television. At the moment they've gone. "
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Come And Go
Television
Gone
" You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers. "
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Train
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Great
" I'm a trained lawyer, after all, so I don't have to admit to anything. "
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After
Trained
Lawyer
" I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies. "
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Trees
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" Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things. "
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" If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. It doesn't do you any favours in terms of showing you what you look like and what your emotions are. "
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Television
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