Leaving politics was a good thing. I was spared a miserable Tory government where I might have ended up as leader.
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A vocation is a noble thing and not to be subverted by the whims of politicians.
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Wagner had a terrific understanding of politics. In 1829, he was a Marxist revolutionary who wanted to bring down the establishment. He hated religion and churches, which he said enslaved people. But he later developed different views that put art at the centre of the life of the state.
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I have that normal male thing of valuing myself according to the job I do.
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My father was possessed of an extraordinary romantic idealism, an unwavering belief in certain principles. He was always talking about the past. Always. Of course, it has a powerful effect on me.
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Oppositions usually say ridiculous things and must embarrassingly then ditch untenable positions.
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