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'I have never acted on a press release or gone out to dinner with a PR. I think PR is a ridiculous job. They are the headlice of civilisation'

'Islington is about as far as you can get from London without needing yellow-fever jabs'

'Rolf Harris is a difficult man to hate but that shouldnt stop us trying'

'Proof that God has an odd sense of humour - after inventing Haute Cuisine he gave it to the French'

'All I can think of the Middle Ages is that everything must have chafed terribly'

Born in Edinburgh, Edinburgh and the Lothians
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Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks. - D H Lawrence
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Boston Massachusetts Founded - 1630, Operation Market Garden - Allied invasion of Holland - 1944, Lord of the Flies Published - 1954
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