Terry Wogan Quotes

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• I suppose I should make a little apology to Cyndi - although I'm not taking the blame for this - because I was the one…
• I don't make the mistake of thinking it's a major musical event. I love the Eurovision Song Contest and it will continue long after I'm…
• Who knows what hellish future lies ahead? … Actually, I do. I've seen the rehearsals,
• There's not enough silliness in the world. Eurovision helps to keep it balanced.
• Don't start drinking before the fifth song.
• Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.
• The culture now in television is that the presenter calls the financial and, increasingly, the creative shots. It is comparable to what happened in Hollywood…
• A television chat show is light entertainment, so it is trivial by its very nature. It is hardly the place to get people to reveal…
• My father was always slightly bemused by my success. Although he knew that I had reasonable intelligence, he always thought that I was a little…
• You have to be aware of your own shortcomings. The main thing I try not to do is lose my temper. Doing live interviews on…
• Nobody really knows what they look like. The mirror shows you only what you want to see.
• Places like India can give you a real culture shock because of the poverty you see, and it brings you up sharply.
• A talk show is about having a look at a famous face, a bit of stand-up comedy, knockabout stuff - an interview is what Barbara…
• I speak some French, Spanish, a little German and Gaelic.
• Just as the England football manager starts with bells and flags and balloons and ends up reviled, so do prime ministers. Tony Blair - is…
• I say to my children, the reason that marriage - and having children - is so important is that it stops you thinking about yourself.…
• All of us are private to ourselves. Nobody ever really knows anybody else. Everybody in the world keeps something to themselves.
• I have to say, without getting up on a soapbox, I find these reality shows absolutely disgusting.
• Just as you should never confuse the law with common justice, intelligence should not be confused with common sense. Some of the brightest people in…
• If the present Mrs. Wogan has a fault - and I must tread carefully here - if she has a fault, this gem in the…

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