#ma

I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#believe #broadcaster #commercial #durable #fee

The noble man is only God's image. ↗

— Ludwig Tieck

#image #man #noble #only

Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense. ↗

— Jeff Bingaman

#american #american consumers #billion #cannot #consumers

The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.' ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#bbc #beasts #best #blue #comparison

The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#business #concessions #government #happen #insistent

I still like to keep tapes of the few minutes before the final take, things that happen before the session. Maybe it's superstitious, but I believe if I had done things differently - if I had walked around the studio or gone out - it wouldn't have turned out that way. ↗

— Ray Davies

#before #believe #differently #done #few

What I try to do probably doesn't come out. What I've worked out what I do - I might not be right - is to do something very personal, and then suddenly I look at it, up in the air. I blow it up and look at it and then I come down again - a better man. ↗

— Ray Davies

#air #better #better man #blow #come

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#age #book #building #fine #great

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#happy #happy childhood #life #many #promising

I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

#i #i think #image #looks #obsessed