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Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

#beyond #ideas #our #sometimes #will

The BBC is part of the glue which binds the United Kingdom together. At those times of national moment - of joy or sadness, in the UK or around the world, at times when the nation wants to celebrate, mourn or just enjoy itself people turn to the BBC. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#bbc #binds #celebrate #enjoy #glue

So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#going #graduated #i #lawyer #military

The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.' ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#bbc #beasts #best #blue #comparison

Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#bbc #channels #diversity #either #fragmentation

But when you get a bit older, and I hate to use the word, quite a bit more established, people take more notice and conducting becomes a great deal easier. You don't have battles like you had before. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#becomes #before #bit #conducting #deal

I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate in the music that I write. I consider this one of the most vital aspects of my work. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#consider #education #getting #i #i write

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#me #non #politeness #sine

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#age #book #building #fine #great

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass. ↗

— Edgar R. Fiedler

#ball #crystal #crystal ball #eat #glass