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Eating at home is fine, as I can easily work around the foods that don't agree with me and still eat heartily with the rest of my family. I don't force them to follow my diet. Andrea McLean

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One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want to be seen as a band that tours and plays old songs. We feel that we are making the best music of our careers. Andrew Fletcher

Today Music Best Old Seen Band Old Songs Our Songs Tours Feel Making Survive Want Reasons Careers Plays

All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs. Andrew Fletcher

Life's more amusing than we thought. Andrew Lang

Life Thought More Than Amusing

Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn't quite there before. Andrew O'Hagan

Long before the arrival of reality TV - before speed cameras, before recording angels on buses and lampposts - I felt I was living in a country that already knew how to watch itself. It was journalism that held the responsibility for seeing who we were and noticing what we did. Andrew O'Hagan

Reality Responsibility Long Recording Country Before Living Speed TV Seeing Angels Knew Journalism Felt How Arrival Were Cameras Itself Did Buses Reality TV Held Noticing Who Watch

When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers about men clambering over walls and getting tangled in barbed wire. Andrew O'Hagan

A theatre is not a blank page for editorial, it is not a soapbox or a Tannoy system: it is a conscience that wakes with what is happening in the space, and wakes further still in response to what people are making of it. Andrew O'Hagan

Theatre People Space Further System Response Blank Blank Page Making Editorial Still Wakes Happening Soapbox Page Conscience

There's a horrible fallacy that exists in the popular discussion of fiction these days: the idea that a successful central character need be 'likeable' or 'sympathetic'. It is surely more important that they be human, no? More crucial that they breathe? Andrew O'Hagan

As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness. Andrew O'Hagan

Care Carelessness I Care About Writer America

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality. Andrew O'Hagan

Good People Depend Nationalism Struggling Myths Principle Common Common People Commonality

We now live in the era of fake consensus, or phoney populism, a condition in which galleries and homes are seen to succeed best where they manage feelings of non-difference. Andrew O'Hagan

Best Seen Feelings Live Phoney Fake Era Condition Manage Where Which Succeed Galleries Now Homes Consensus

The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the underclass: service jobs, celebrity dreams, Lotto wins, leisured poverty on pre-crunch credit cards, it's all there, part of the story of an English people whose grandparents never had it so good. Andrew O'Hagan

Service Dreams Good Class Happy People Poverty Every Jobs Wins Take Never Had Part Celebrity Disenchantment Story Informs Working Grandparents Granted Working-Class England English English People Code Whose Credit Credit Cards Cards

Interviewing is not a democratic art. Andrew O'Hagan

Art Interviewing Democratic

I was 10 when I realised I couldn't stand football. I'd tried, obviously, before this - no one wants to give in to social pariah-hood without a fight. I had stood frozen on pitches, done some running about and shouted a lot, as though I cared. Andrew O'Hagan

The working class of England today have no vision of society beyond the acquisitive - no version of themselves or their habits as anything other than transitional, on their way up or on their way out. The working class, at best, is a waiting room for people who aim to become middle class if possible. Andrew O'Hagan

Today Best Class Waiting People Vision Become Society Other Aim Way Out Possible Habits Beyond Version Up Than Middle Middle Class Anything Room Transitional Themselves Working Working-Class England Who

As an old creative industry full of cruelty and moral sense, British journalism once flourished on the imperative that people required the truth in order to survive. But people don't require that now. They want sensation and they want it for nothing. Andrew O'Hagan

Truth Creative People Old Cruelty Sense Nothing Once Moral Moral Sense Imperative Journalism Industry Survive Sensation Order Want To Survive Require Required Full Now British

The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me. Andrew O'Hagan

Life Me People More Simply Idea Than Should Novels Sympathetic

I always believed in my ability. I just had to work hard and be patient and, yeah, at times it didn't look likely. You need a wee stroke of luck but every chance I've been given, I've taken. Andrew Robertson

Work You Work Hard Be Patient Patient Luck Every Stroke Ability Given Wee Had Taken Look Likely Always Yeah Been Times Just Hard Believed Every Chance Chance Need

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