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"The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish."
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"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
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"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing."
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"Old and young disbelieve one another's truths."
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"Old and young, we are all on our last cruise."
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"I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair."
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"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."
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"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."
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"It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes."
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"I've been performing on stage since I was six years old."
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"I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift."
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"The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish."
Old

"I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two."
Loss

"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."
Communication

"The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales."
Life

"The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me."
Media

"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."
Tax

"That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter."
Knowledge

"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."
Vision

"I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat."
Battle

"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."
Living
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