Rory Bremner Quotes

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• Politics now is rather like going into Starbucks for a coffee.
• I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education,
• That business aspect of the media, that Charlotte Street world, the advertising and programme executives, it leaves me absolutely cold. I'm supposed to be the…
• It is almost impossible to say the name of Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawat without adding 'give a dog a bone'
• I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my…
• William Hague, the world's favourite hairline.
• But let's be clear. We're talking about a country where there's no opposition. As leader he can ignore Parliament and - sorry that's Tony Blair…
• When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the…
• I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening.
• Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
• My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.
• British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.
• I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression.
• It is a weird thing, because most people tend to get more conservative as they get older, but I find myself going the opposite way.…
• I'm much more used to the TV shows, which are demanding to write and perform but very fulfilling.
• In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.
• Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column.
• People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.
• My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.
• Maybe we like our politicians to appear like bumbling oafs. It certainly never did Ronald Reagan or George Bush any harm. The Italians still seem…

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