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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.

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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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