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The most reliable way to become a millionaire theatre producer is to start off a billionaire - Andrew Lloyd Webber

High quality live sport will gradually go to Sky. We simply can't compete with the cheque book - John Birt, BBC director-general

This was not some sort of article for Hello!, it was a disaster that hit a community - Patricia Greenhill, provost of Dunblane, on media coverage of the school shooting tragedy

When I look in the mirror, all I see is a middle-aged man who needs a shave - Harrison Ford, actor

It's really scary and makes me cry at night. We pass it when we go down the road - Marie Dickson, 10, on the Blair demon eyes poster

I do not think it is possible to be a Conservative and green - Lady Barber, who has abandoned her protest against the Newbury by-pass

The test of a civilised nation is how it treats its dispossessed. Too many of Britain's homeless are living in Third World conditions - Jon Fitzmaurice, director of the homeless charity CHAR

Labour must dump some of the baggage that has kept the party out of office, but so much is disappearing there is a danger that we may arrive in port with an empty vessel - Paul Flynn, Labour MP

We get a better class of loony fan at Radio 4 - John Humphrys, the BBC 'Today' programme interviewer