Paul Gambaccini Quotes

#1. Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.

Dalia Mogahed

#2. All human kingship risks a denial of the sovereignty of God.

Peter Hollingworth

#3. Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl?
The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no one.

Kate DiCamillo

#4. The BBC said I could stay on air until I was named. Well, I was named within the week. So I made no broadcasts after I'd been arrested, and the BBC stopped paying me at precisely the time when I needed the money most.

Paul Gambaccini

#5. We create the government that screws you, and then you're supposed to thank us for protecting you from it.

Vin Weber

#6. When the case against me was dropped, the police simply said "no further action". They do that with everybody.

Paul Gambaccini

#7. What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter.

Elena Kagan

#8. Good intentions do not guarantee good results. Somehow Andrew Keates turns works of merit into evenings of entertainment. Don't call him a dramaturge, call him an alchemist.

Paul Gambaccini

#9. Never sue the police. The odds are in their favour.

Paul Gambaccini

#10. I work because I love it. It's a projection of myself. It allows me to express my enthusiasm for music and film using the spoken word, which I love, and broadcasting, a medium which has always fascinated me. I'm very lucky.

Paul Gambaccini

#11. I was dead, and I hadn't even been able to attend my own funeral.

Meg Cabot

#12. No one loves a country as much as someone who has chosen to live in it.

Paul Gambaccini

#13. I was never interested in film. Never. I never even thought of it. I wasn't even a film buff, I didn't see many films ever.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala