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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.

— Gyles Brandreth

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Source: From an interview, as cited in Angela Wintle "Gyles Brandreth: 'My wife has a skip company on speed dial for when I die'", The Telegraph (12 May 2024)
Source quality: Secondhand citation Quoted from another book or article rather than from the original.

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I describe what I do on the day that I do it. The nice thing for me is that I do lots of different things on lots of different days.

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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".

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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.

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