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“I was always a girl who wanted to please her dad, and he so wanted me to succeed.”
“It's wonderful to be with people of a younger generation. it really is.”
“I sometimes buy the Daily Mail and hide it in my Guardian.”
“I think in some reality shows people are chosen because they are laughably bad, so that the nation and the panel and everybody else can laugh at them.”
“I've got a great relationship with my oldest grandson because we go to political meetings and lectures, which I love.”
“Even for those who do survive, tumours can affect the functions of the brain and therefore affect a person's personality, preventing many people from working, driving and otherwise leading a normal life.”
“I got myself into hot water with the press in 2014 by suggesting that the art installation of poppies in the Tower of London moat should be completed by being malevolently mown down by a tank, in the way that the service men and women whom the poppies represented had been.”
“Acting is a job and it pays the rent. I don't do it for fun.”
“Christmas Eve is my wedding anniversary so it is a double whammy.”
“I think why I'm sometimes fearless is because I've found, and this comes with age, if you challenge something your fear goes away.”
“I was struck during the Brexit debate by how little discussion there was about the origins of the concept of a united Europe.”
“I don't want my daughters reading about the day I was furious with one of them and said something horrible, that I didn't mean, except on that particular day.”
“I have gained no wisdom at all in my old age, but that's the only message I have. It's down to you, ultimately. It really is.”
“People are surprised because I drive a Jaguar XK sports car and say the occasional intelligent thing. People think I'm an exception, but I'm typical of a lot of women of my age.”
“I'm just driven. It's kind of a disease. I'm not proud of it, but it comes from my parents. You work and you earn your money and only spend the money that you've earned.”
“On the night of Brexit, while some people were celebrating and others were having wakes, I stayed in and played Beethoven, his quartets mainly, into the small hours of the morning.”
“I wish I could say I was wise and clever, but I'm really not.”
“As a child, I was deeply religious and went to church every Sunday.”
“I was this sort of floozy in 'The Rag Trade,' and 'Mr Digby Darling,' and 'Now, Take My Wife' - the titles say it all.”
“I've never been one of those nanas who pretends to be young.”