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"We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father."

"The anticipation of loss is much more frightening than the actual loss as anticipation leaves room for the imagination to create that which, in all likelihood, will never transpire."

"I straightened up and looked out the plane window at the dark clouds hanging over the North Sea, thinking of what I had lost in the course of my life: times gone forever, friends who had died or disappeared, feelings I would never know again."
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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."

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

"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."
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