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"The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish."
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"To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something."
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"Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television."
"The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered."
"The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!"
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"You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'"
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"Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old."
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"Obviously, I did a couple of things right on the old casting couch."
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"The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market."
"Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters."
"That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter."
"Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words."
"Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last week's winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong."
"I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based."
"It's absolutely fine to think of new ways of doing things, and I'm not just asking for the traditional reporter to look into our living rooms night after night."
"I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for."
"The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales."
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