Top 20 Clive Anderson Quotes

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I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck ar

I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.
Clive Anderson
I do find myself surprised by the comedy shows that seem to have the same joke week in week out.
Clive Anderson
I’m a trained lawyer, after all, so I don’t have to admit to anything.
Clive Anderson
It is a bit frustrating. Things come and go in television. At the moment they’ve gone.
Clive Anderson
I try to make myself walk around a bit, but I probably think about it more than I actually do it. Years ago, I did think about joining a gym.
Clive Anderson
Research gathered over recent years has highlighted the countless benefits to people, wildlife and the environment that come from planting trees and creating new woodland habitat. It’s obvious trees are good things.
Clive Anderson
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.
Clive Anderson
On the environmental front there’s concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.
Clive Anderson
I like being forced to think about things in a different way.
Clive Anderson
I think political correctness is a moving line.
Clive Anderson
I like to think of myself as a natural gardener.
Clive Anderson
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.
Clive Anderson
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.
Clive Anderson
I’ve always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.
Clive Anderson
Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.
Clive Anderson
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
I don’t think I’m really a rude person, but now I see myself on television, I think, ‘Oh, God, that is a bit strong.’ And I wonder if I’ve always been like that and I haven’t been aware of it.
Clive Anderson
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.
Clive Anderson
I’m pale-skinned so I don’t feel at my best on a beach.
Clive Anderson
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.
Clive Anderson