Clive Anderson Quotes

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• I am attached to the west coast of Scotland - it's gorgeous to look at and challenging. You have to contend with the possibility of…
• On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.
• My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home…
• I do find myself surprised by the comedy shows that seem to have the same joke week in week out.
• I like being forced to think about things in a different way.
• I like to think of myself as a natural gardener.
• I like New York. There are similarities with London that make it feel rather like home, but at the same time it's slightly fictional.
• I have done well out of TV, but not well enough to buy football clubs. I'm not sure it's ever a way to make money.
• I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We're just another remote country that hardly impinges on…
• I think political correctness is a moving line.
• I'm pale-skinned so I don't feel at my best on a beach.
• I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.
• I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.
• This is me, Clive Anderson, saying good night. Good night.
• The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.
• You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.
• If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. It doesn't do you any favours in terms of showing…
• Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.
• It's true, people don't imagine I'd be particularly woody.
• Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older…

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