“People get the impression that everyone in the theatre was jumping into bed with everyone else in the 1960s. But I wasn’t. Sadly, all I was taking to bed at the time were my lines”
Richard Briers, the Royal Shakespeare Company, cinema and television actor
“A lot of people are dead everywhere; it’s just awful”
The commander of an Argentine brigade in Haiti, Lieutenant-Colonel Santiago Ferreyra, describes the terrible destruction in the wake of the tropical storm Jeanne
“In sitcom school, they tell you how great it is to have a long-running show, but they don’t tell you how hard it is to say goodbye”
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David Hyde Pierce wins the Emmy for best supporting actor for playing brother to Dr Frasier Crane, the psychiatrist in the NBC comedy Frasier, which ended an 11-year run earlier this year
“They think everyone who goes hunting is a toff, but I’m the son of a London taxi driver”
Brian Friend, hunt supporter, who is making a fresh legal challenge to the foxhunting ban in Scotland
“People saw me as a nasty guy, a flame-thrower, and I’m not. People know me better now. And they like me much more”
Donald Trump, America’s “most popular billionaire”
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“Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it”
The novelist J. G. Ballard