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Your support makes all the difference.Elizabeth was a bit jelly-bags (jealous) of my success, but basically she'd rather I did well than not. - Hugh Grant, star of Four Weddings and a Funeral, on his girlfriend, Elizabeth Hurley, Radio Times
Never come near me or my writing again, do you hear? - Jeanette Winterson, novelist, dropping in on a critic, the Observer's Nicci Gerrard, to protest at an unfriendly profile
There have been decisions made - and before I left - that were patently crazy, and they were usually made in a panic. - Simon Bates, DJ, on changes at Radio 1, Q
Authenticity, supremacy, individualism. - Graham Morris, managing director of Rover Europe, on the values shared by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and its new sponsor
We don't need books to make films. It's the last thing we want - it turns cinema into the bastard art of illustration. - Peter Greenaway, film director, on literary adaptations, Literary Review
I don't want to be seen as some sort of flagpole for nudity. I mean I'm only like this professionally. - Tara Fitzgerald on the nude scenes in the film Sirens, Time Out
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