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Well, I don't think I'm good-looking... I know people who are good-looking, and I'm not good-looking.

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I'll never forget my interview with Barry Humphries - one of the oddest I've ever done. He insisted that for half the time he appeared as Dame Edna. So I interviewed the real Barry Humphries in a suit and tie, and then I interviewed Edna in full fig in her dressing room, where she criticised Barry mercilessly.

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Dame Barbara Cartland was an endearing eccentric, and when I interviewed her, she wanted me to listen to her dictating to her secretary one of those romantic novels that she turned out fortnightly.

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In the 40 or so years I've known David Puttnam, not only has he pursued an outstanding career in films and now politics, but he has been the keeper of the flame of the British film industry.

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Like university science departments, the arts have shown how they can earn their way and point to an economically newborn future for this country. They show that the U.K. could be a prime provider of imaginative riches and intellectual adventure, which I think are the two great prizes of the 21st century.

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Few places on earth have been as affectionately alchemised into literature as the Lake District.

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I am 74 now. Looking back, I have a sense of not really being in control of my career. I just went where it took me.

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I don't feel like I'm slowing down.

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My life is not very different from what it was 20 years ago. In fact, my career hasn't changed much since I was 22.

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I was brought up in a strong working-class community by working-class parents and relations until I was 18, and that's what I really am. Now all sorts of things have been added, but that's what I am.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Journalist

Born: October 6th, 1939

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