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Sports taught me that I can make a mistake one minute, let it go, and be brilliant the next.
Through bitcoin, the Argentines are developing an economy which doesn't require the bankers.
In 1997, the Labour government set out to strengthen funding for the arts - and achieved it.
I dish the dirt out and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it?
When you've finished using a car, put the f***ing seat back, so humans can use it afterwards.
I've been making arts programmes for almost 50 years, and every day, I can't believe my luck.
The only positive benefit of the injury to Flintoff may be the end of his captaincy ambitions
There is considerable merit to the notion of treating gun violence as a public health matter.
I'm scared about everything. I'm an anxious worrier. I worry about the downside of everything.
Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.
There is no change in the top six of division 2, except that Leeds have moved into the top six
TV is shifting into the background of just being another appliance; it’s just a bigger screen.
Apostasy is a grave crime in Islam and punishable by death in the eyes of members of al Qaeda.
I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.
Step out of the space you're in. Use fear to grow. We can change lives, starting with our own.
I don't know how you can move out of one's socioeconomic category if you don't have education.
I suppose kids probably know less boredom these days - or at least a different kind of boredom.
Getting a moral lecture from the fashion industry is like Jeffrey Dahmer criticising your diet.
There's so much stuff flying around online, and it's so easy to get into arguments with people.
We can now manipulate images to such an extrodinary extent that there's no lie you cannot tell.
A structure is a bit like a story. People will go along with you - they see where you're going.
It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life.
The American incarceration of Sheikh Rahman was a hot-button issue for al Qaeda for many years.
In late May 2016, an ISIS spokesman called for attacks in the West during the month of Ramadan.
I saw The Twilight Zone for the first time when I was 12 or 13. I used to stay up late to watch.
My brain knows best-before dates are a con; my panicky gut treats them like a nuclear countdown.
We don't sit down and look at the news pages and think, 'How could we do an episode about that?'
If we were all to reduce our demands for energy, it would make an enormous amount of difference.
All the modern devices we have enable us to investigate things and have enabled us to do better.
It's just thinking of funny things that will amuse us and entertain us and we'll come and do it.
As the 20th century unspooled, a cultural warming melted down many frozen class characteristics.
Few places on earth have been as affectionately alchemised into literature as the Lake District.
The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living.
I'm actually quite pro-technology, but I'm a worrier, so I like to envision worst-case scenarios.
I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.
The Americans lecture the world on democracy and then won’t let me turn the traction control off!
Koenigsegg are saying that the CCX is more comfortable. More comfortable than what BEING STABBED?
You are not going to be perfect every day. It’s about turning up the next day and doing it again.
You are not going to be perfect every day. It's about turning up the next day and doing it again.
There's some pretty good academic research that suggest that what Americans don't like is losing.
For many terrorists, carrying out an attack allowed them to become the heroes of their own story.
Assad owes his continuation in power to the intervention of Russia in 2015 to prop up his regime.
The fashion industry is the worst possible vessel for conveying an ethical message about anything.
I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.
You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.
I am an ardent recycler. I would like to think that it works. I don't know whether it does or not.
Stories are one of the greatest gifts we can give to our children. Stories are equipment for life.
I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.
My kids are very young. I'm sure there's a world of horror for me to worry about as they get older.
I never really thought of myself as a TV critic. I was presenting TV before I was writing about it.