QUOTES OF THE DAY

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Quitting heroin is like hell, but it’s a short hell. I mean, the actual process. Cigarettes are just always there, and you’ve always done it. I just pick them up and light them up without thinking about it.

Rolling Stone Keith Richards finds it harder to quit smoking than his drug habit.

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I think my grandfather’s reputation can withstand a publicity-seeking assault from a third-rate, Poundland Lenin. I don’t think it will shake the world. Tory MP Sir Nicholas Soames, grandson of Winston Churchill who was denounced as “a villain” by shadow chancellor John McDonnell because of his action against striking Welsh miners in 1910.

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I did an interview once with Janet Street-Porter, and it was basically like two seagulls fighting over a chip.

Chatty Man comedian Alan Carr.

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I agree with Marilyn Monroe who said that to remember something new, she had to forget something first to make room for it.

TV’s Esther Rantzen on one of the inconveniences of ageing.

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I was very naive myself, as a parent, of really just how important particularly the early years are for children’s futures. And how critical it is, everyone looking after children at a critical time, teachers, parents, and everyone who’s caring for them, how important it is that we get it right.

The Duchess of Cambridge.

Esther Rantzen and Keith Richards.