British - Comedian | April 6, 1961 -
We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge.
Rory Bremner
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A lot of what I do - I have to try and make sense of things before I can make nonsense of them.
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It's a new world that's very, very difficult to make sense of. But we have a new hope. We have a new man. America has now elected its first openly black President.
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I can't look at John Prescott without thinking of Les Dawson, and Robin Cook is a caricature of himself.
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I think if there is a God, it's very important that he has a sense of humour - otherwise, you are in for a very miserable afterlife.
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I remember when Tony Blair came into office, and there was a sense I was thinking, 'Well, what on Earth am I going to do now?' until I realized that's exactly what he was thinking.
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Like millions of Scots, I've agonised over whether to go for independence or remain with the Union.
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One of my greatest sadnesses at the prospective break-up of the Union is that it will set English, Welsh and Northern Irish against Scots in a bitter division of the debts and resources of the whole of the U.K.
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I am proud of Edinburgh's status as a financial centre, but where is it on the index of global financial centres? Sixty-fourth. Below Hamilton, Casablanca and Mauritius. London, by contrast, is second only to New York. That's a link worth keeping.
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For some time, Scotland's greatest exports to England have included whisky and Scottish MPs. Or, in the case of Charles Kennedy, both. All these links, politically, economically, culturally, are part of my Union. Would Glasgow's brilliant Commonwealth Games or the Edinburgh Festival be any better for our being independent? I doubt it.
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I wish my father had lived longer. He died when I was 18.
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I think I probably tend to make life hard for myself by taking on too many things. I call it plate spinning.
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