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

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

" Magna Carta has 63 clauses in abbreviated Latin. Two of them that are still on the statute book, numbers 39 and 40, could be said to have changed the way in which the free world has grown. "

" It was my idea for high culture and popular culture to be treated equally. "

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" A lot of the novels that I've really enjoyed in my life, whether it's Tolstoy's 'Cossacks,' or 'Sons and Lovers' or 'Jude the Obscure' or 'David Copperfield' or 'Herzog,' have an autobiographical spine. "

" 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. "

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

" Well, I don't think I'm good-looking... I know people who are good-looking, and I'm not good-looking. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" One of the great things about making 'Reel History' was meeting British people from all over the class system. It made me realise that London is a different country. "

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

" More people go to Tate Modern than watch the Arsenal. "

" 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. "

" I love writing, and I love making arts programmes. "

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

" The driving force behind 'In Our Time' is that I want an education. I want to know more about science, say, and if I want to know, then other people probably do, too. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Is it rather stupid and dangerous to take Magna Carta so much for granted, as many of us seem to do, and to think of this attitude as 'very English?' "

" Britain is undoubtedly becoming more cultural. No question of it. People who say it is dumbing down simply don't look around enough. They don't know enough. "

" Class doesn't create culture anymore. "

" I'm addicted to 'Game Of Thrones.' "

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" Writers are looking for a story. Using your own life as the basis for a story gives it an association with reality that's a wonderful starting point. "

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

" 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. "

" Film has changed the way we look at the past. "