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One of the interesting things about writing a play is that when you've finished it you have to give it away.

— Gyles Brandreth WhatsonStage interview (2010)

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If you'd spent your life being called "Gyles Brandreth", you would crawl across broken glass to achieve the bliss, the simplicity, the purity, the joy of simply being called "Bob".

I had to pull about twenty pieces of broken glass out of my hand using tweezers and antiseptic cream. I'm never going to have a game of arm wrestling with Michael Howard again.

In my wife's view, there is too much clutter. She has declared that the moment I die, she has the local skip company on rapid dial and everything will go.

We are very happy to be here. Can I say that as well? This is a happy place to work. I enjoy coming in here and have done since I began coming in.

I get to my desk at eight in the morning and I leave it at seven in the evening and I just work away. I'm a work machine.

WhatsonStage interview (2010)

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