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Today's Anniversary - 18th June

Births

• 1903 - Raymond Radiguet
• 1980 - Kristen Bell
• 1950 - Mike Johanns
• 1966 - Kurt Browning
• 1961 - Alison Moyet

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• 1964 - Giorgio Morandi
• 1902 - Samuel Butler
• 1929 - Edward Carpenter
• 2010 - Jose Saramago
• 1959 - Ethel Barrymore

• I don’t know if you can change things, but it’s a drop in the ocean.

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• You can’t help but feel a little bit like a mother to the younger cast members.

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• We have to take risks with art. If we don’t, it all becomes a bit boring.

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• There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women’s stories. God, the BBC’s practically run by women.

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• There is this idea that appealing to youth is the only way forward. But that is no longer the case. Youth is not everything. Now we have all the baby-boomers in their 60s, like me, who are actively engaged in life – we’re not retiring, we’re not just being put out to grass once we hit 60.

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• The way I relax is I think, ‘I haven’t got anything coming up.’ I like to know there are months ahead when I’ve got nothing.

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• The money isn’t a lure. I’ve done very well out of this business.

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• The characters do have a life of their own; it’s weird.

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• That’s why I’m an actress – escaping into a world.

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• Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it’s really the place where you should always live.

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• Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it’s like a family.

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• Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.

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• Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won’t necessarily be blockbusters.

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• Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It’s got labels on it – OAP, retirement – and I just wanted to take stock. I wanted to be in my greenhouse at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again.

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• Oh all the time when Victoria Wood and I did our series. There were people asking ‘Can women be funny?’ People still ask that. It’s like asking: ‘Can women breathe in and out?’

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• My mother was born on a tiny farm in County Mayo. She was meant to stay at home and look after the farm while her brother and sister got an education. However, she came to England on a visit and never went back.

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• My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric – they can behave the way they want.

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• Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days – unmarried – was just unheard of.

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• It’s very strong after the birth. It’s extraordinary. You can’t watch anything to do with kids being harmed.

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• It’s getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting; and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen.

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