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" 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. "
Melvyn Bragg
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" 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. "
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" I was born in a radio world, and I got so much from it. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I do think the BBC could do more, but I've always thought the BBC could do more - I think there should be more arts programmes full stop. "
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" As the 20th century unspooled, a cultural warming melted down many frozen class characteristics. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" I'm addicted to 'Game Of Thrones.' "
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" I'm a Labour party supporter, but I'm also a democrat. "
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" My memory seems to be holding on quite well. There is no reason why it shouldn't if you keep training it. "
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" I don't get nervous when I'm interviewing someone on film - it can be cut, and we can do it again. It is quite nerve-racking doing things live. "
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" Love of place is one of the characteristics I enjoy most about novelists. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other things happen. "
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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. "
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" We were working class, and you don't lose that. Later on, I bolted on media middle class... and now people like me are in the House of Lords. "
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" There is an army of the informed wanting to be more informed. "
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" The abolition of slavery was driven by the King James Bible. It gave slaves a common language and purpose. "
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" 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. "
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" Miliband failed us, his Labour supporters. And Labour will now, because of him, be in a disaster zone for a long time. "
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" My life is not very different from what it was 20 years ago. In fact, my career hasn't changed much since I was 22. "
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" 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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" In 1997, the Labour government set out to strengthen funding for the arts - and achieved it. "
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" A structure is a bit like a story. People will go along with you - they see where you're going. "
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