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"Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors."
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"Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less."
Society
"Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot."
Politics
"The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare."
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"A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it."
People
"Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors."
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"I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough."
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"The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision."
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"Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters."
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"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."
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"Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb."
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"You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain."
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"I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right."
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"A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills."
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"I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright."
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"I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be."
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"I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director."
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"I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different."
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"I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor."
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