Clive Anderson Quotes

• Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

  Clive Anderson

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• I am attached to the west coast of Scotland – it’s gorgeous to look at and challenging. You have to contend with the possibility of being blown away or rained on. And in the summer months you can be eaten alive by midges.

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  Tags in Possibility, Summer, Challenging

• I do find myself surprised by the comedy shows that seem to have the same joke week in week out.

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• I have done well out of TV, but not well enough to buy football clubs. I’m not sure it’s ever a way to make money.

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  Tags in Enough, Sure

• I like being forced to think about things in a different way.

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• I like New York. There are similarities with London that make it feel rather like home, but at the same time it’s slightly fictional.

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  Tags in Home, Fictional

• I like to think of myself as a natural gardener.

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• I think political correctness is a moving line.

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  Tags in Political, Think

• I’ve always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

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  Tags in Interest, Destroyed

• If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. It doesn’t do you any favours in terms of showing you what you look like and what your emotions are.

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  Tags in Definitely, Television

• I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We’re just another remote country that hardly impinges on some places at all.

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  Tags in Remember, Realising

• If you look at it ecologically, deforestation is high on the list of things which bring devastation. You cut down trees to build homes, for fuel, and you end up with no trees left, and you have to move on. If you take the earth as a whole, eventually there’s nowhere to move on to.

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  Tags in Things, Earth

• My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home in woodland as they are in a city.

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  Tags in Home, Perfect, Favourite

• It’s true, people don’t imagine I’d be particularly woody.

  Clive Anderson

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  Tags in People, True

• I’m pale-skinned so I don’t feel at my best on a beach.

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  Tags in Feel, Best

• The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.

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  Tags in Another, Keep, Elections

• I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.

  Clive Anderson

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  Tags in Defeat, Object

• You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.

  Clive Anderson

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  Tags in Successful, Famous

• Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it’s interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it’s a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult.

  Clive Anderson

  Topics in Children

  Tags in People, Difficult, Idea

• If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support.

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  Tags in Person, Realize, Support, Greater

Clive Anderson (26)

Birth:	10th December, 1952
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Barrister, Radio Personality, Television Presenter, Writer

About

Clive Anderson was born in Middlesex, England. He is an English game Show Host, Radio personality, comedy writer and former barrister. He has also been successful with a number of radio programmes, television interviews and guest appearances on Have I Got News for You, Mock the Week and QI. He has also recently appeared on Alexander Armstrong's TV panel show 'Alexander Armstrong's Big Ask'. He made his name as host of the improvised television comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway?, which ran for 10 series. He hosted his own chat-show, Clive Anderson Talks Back, on Channel 4, which ran for 10 series. On 25 February 2008, he started presenting Brainbox Challenge, a new game show, for BBC Two. The show Whose Line is it Anyway? won a BAFTA award in 1990. Later, he won both the "Top Entertainment Presenter" and "Top Radio Comedy Personality" at the British Comedy Awards in 1991.

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