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" 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. "

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Deep

High

Scotland

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

" I don't feel inferior in the slightest to anybody - or superior to anybody, let's get that clear. But I do feel different. "

" I enjoy writing. Would I rather be playing golf? No. Would I rather be fishing? No. "

" Like university science departments, the arts have shown how they can earn their way and point to an economically newborn future for this country. They show that the U.K. could be a prime provider of imaginative riches and intellectual adventure, which I think are the two great prizes of the 21st century. "

" If you look at the creative economy in this country, it's per capita way bigger than any other in the world. "

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

" I don't believe in a personal God, no. And I don't believe in resurrection as it is in the New Testament. "

" I don't go around thinking I'm attractive or not attractive. It has never occurred to me. People don't think like that where I come from... No one has ever said, 'Oh, he's a good-looking bloke.' They just didn't use those words about men. "

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Words

Thinking

" The best of pop in our country is among the best of the arts that we do. And Britain does the arts as well as, and sometimes better than, anybody else on the planet. "

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

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Curiosity

Control

" 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! "

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

" Compared to the big 19th-century novelists, I've got a slim volume of work. "

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

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Slowing

Feel

" There is an army of the informed wanting to be more informed. "

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Informed

Wanting

" The abolition of slavery was driven by the King James Bible. It gave slaves a common language and purpose. "

" 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?' "

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Dangerous

Attitude

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" If I meet pals, we do hug each other, and it's very nice, you know... it's something that's come on me late and became second nature, and it's first nature now! "

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Nice

Nature

" Grime reminds me, if there is an echo, of sort of near enough like Liverpool in the very early Sixties. It's a lot of kids obsessed with music - obsessed with it. "

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Early

Music

" Sometimes, you're just moved by people's journeys. "

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

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