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I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster. Ryan Giggs

I have always considered myself to be very fortunate. To play for the biggest club in the world, which also happens to be the team I supported as a boy, means I have never had to consider changing away from Manchester United. Ryan Giggs

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My dad played rugby, so I used to watch a lot of rugby union and rugby league. Ryan Giggs

Rugby League Lot Used Union Dad Played Watch

My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work. Sarah Waters

Work People Big Nursery Maid Maids Most Houses Were

Ours is a world which feels so unsettled and dangerous in large ways, whether it's terrorism or global financial meltdown or climate change - huge things that affect us deeply, and yet things about which we can do, individually, very little. Sarah Waters

Terrorism Change World Dangerous Financial Ways Meltdown Ours About Unsettled Individually Feels Global Climate Climate Change Affect Huge Very Whether Which Little Us Large Deeply Things

All I can do is write about whatever grabs me. Sarah Waters

Me Whatever About Write

I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'. Sarah Waters

Thought Second-Rate Rather Knew Academic Well Always Even Novelist

Novels are nothing but evolution, but there does come a point when that stops, and the story is sealed within the pages of the book. That doesn't happen with a play. Even performances are different every night. Sarah Waters

The relationship you have with your mother is like nothing else. They do kind of know everything about you, even though they don't confront it. That is often a dynamic from childhood onwards. As a teenager, you want to be independent and do slightly furtive things. Sarah Waters

I've ended up feeling fonder of 'The Paying Guests' than of any of my other novels. Sarah Waters

Feeling Other Guests Fonder Up Than Ended Any Paying Novels

I like dramas because there's a big overlap between film and fiction, so I feel relatively qualified to talk about plot and characterisation and that sort of thing. Sarah Waters

Big Dramas Relatively Plot About Feel Between Like Qualified Talk Sort Because Overlap Fiction Film Thing

There is no doubt that the participation of women in the workforce is a serious productivity boost, but to enable this ambition, there must be investment in care - child care, aged care, disability care, health, and education - which are essential social support structures to enable women to work. Sharan Burrow

Work Education Health Women Care Ambition Doubt Boost Must No Doubt Structures Disability Investment Support Participation Enable Child Child Care Essential Which Aged Social Workforce Productivity Serious

It seems evident that the IMF has learned nothing from its inequality-inducing policies during the 1980s debt crises in Latin America nor from its recession-deepening response to the East Asian crisis of the late 1990s. In both regions, the IMF has become synonymous with making bad situations worse. Sharan Burrow

Become Nothing IMF Late Synonymous Worse Latin Latin America Evident Crises Crisis East Response East Asian Bad Seems Both Policies Learned Making Nor Debt America Situations Regions Asian

We may be living in a world of disposable electronics, but working people are not disposable commodities. Sharan Burrow

People World Living May Commodities Working Working People Electronics Disposable

Stark inequality, poverty, and unemployment are driving increased social unrest and, consequently, social and economic risk. Environmental deterioration may well intensify social inequality. Sharan Burrow

Environmental Poverty Increased Deterioration Risk Economic Unrest Driving Well Inequality Unemployment May Social Stark Consequently

Technological developments are changing the way we live, and there is much talk of digitalisation and the disruptive business models enabled by smart phones, tablets, computers, and the 'Internet of things.' Sharan Burrow

Business Phones Smart Internet Live Changing Way Tablets Computers Developments Talk Models Much Things Technological Disruptive

We know how to build economies. It requires investment in jobs. The biggest medium-term multiplier is infrastructure. Sharan Burrow

Build Jobs Investment Economies Know How Biggest Infrastructure Requires

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