QUOTES OF THE DAY

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What has happened here tonight is a truly historic event. You’d have to go back more than a century to find an example of a governing party taking a seat from the opposition party in an election like this.

Trudy Harrison, Tory victor at the Copeland by-election.

“I know that I am a singer and an actor but I give an impression of being neither but a real man conceived by the composer.”

Enrico Caruso, who was born 144 years ago today.

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If David Bowie could be here tonight, he probably wouldn’t be here tonight.

Musical star Michael C Hall at the Brits on the late singer.

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It was only in my midthirties that I learnt to smile. I couldn’t before that. I thought I looked stupid when I smiled.

Actress Dame Helen Mirren.

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Someone just came up to me in a restaurant and told me I look like Minnie Driver but not as tall. I said it was because I am sitting down.

Actress Minnie Driver.