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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".

— Gyles Brandreth

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Source: Genius series 3, episode 4 (BBC Radio 4 (22 October 2007).
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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.

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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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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.

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