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" To give religion two minutes a day, in its own space, isn't exactly selling general morality or atheism short. "

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

" Class doesn't create culture anymore. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Too old at 72? Careful. Ageism is out. We'll have the law on you! "

" I'd been writing fiction for 50 years, since I was 19. And when you write fiction, it becomes a way of thinking: there's always a novel around. The strange thing was that after 'Remember Me,' there wasn't. "

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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" It's amazing that Sky is the only place that has two dedicated arts channels. The BBC is doing very well... but why don't they do more? "

" 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. "

" I've been making arts programmes for almost 50 years, and every day, I can't believe my luck. "

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

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

" I just got fed up with the Protestantism that I'd been brought up with being rubbed out, disregarded. There's an awful lot of frailty and doubt about it, which I understand and share, but there are certain things you just have to acknowledge. "

" That's why writing is important to me. Time goes past, and you've been somewhere and come back that hasn't hurt you, and you've been somebody else. "

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

" I was the only BBC graduate trainee in 1961 interested in arts broadcasting. I knew I wanted to write, and I had to make a living. "

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

" In the 40 or so years I've known David Puttnam, not only has he pursued an outstanding career in films and now politics, but he has been the keeper of the flame of the British film industry. "

" 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! "