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[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes.

The FA have given me a pat on the back. I've taken violence off the terracing and onto the pitch.

Most of the films are only 60% taken, rest is a director's input.

I've stepped more into my business and really... taken control for how I want that to be.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

I want to see far more decisions taken far closer to the patients, the passengers and the pupils. Far more power for locally and regionally elected politicians who understand best the needs of their areas. And far more say too for the dedicated staff at all levels in health and education.

Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

It would have taken something out of this world.

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.