“You cannot make a pair of croak-voiced Daleks appear benevolent, even if you dress one of them in an Armani suit and call the other Marmaduke.”
"Occupying Powers," The Guardian (28 August 1993); the quote is from the James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh Television Festival (27 August 1993) and refers to John Birt and Marmaduke Hussey, who were then Director-General and Chairman of the BBC.
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English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist 1935–1994Related quotes
“Do you know how you make someone into a Dalek? Subtract Love, add Anger.”
Lines written for Oswin Oswald, in Asylum of the Daleks (1 September 2012)
Book I, ch. 16.
Source: The Imitation of Christ (c. 1418)
As stated in, Living in a Police State. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/12/anon-on-the-run-how-commander-x-jumped-bai/3/
Statements on his official plane traveling from Sri Lanka to the Philippines, reported in "Pope Francis: 'You cannot make fun of the faith of others (15 January 2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSV-GD9gA-U
2010s, 2015
Context: Not only does each person have the freedom and the right to say what they think for the common good, they have a duty to do so. Because while it is true that is wrong to react with violence, If my good friend Mr Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch in the nose. … It's normal. You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others. … There are so many people who speak badly about religions or other religions, who make fun of them, who make a game out of the religions of others. They are provocateurs. And what happens to them is what would happen to Mr Gasparri if he says a curse word against my mother. There is a limit. … One cannot make war… kill in the name of one’s own religion, that is, in the name of God.
“I'm sorry for croaking at you this evening. This is PM, I'm Eddie Mair: the walrus of news.”
After presenting an edition of PM in an unusually husky voice (November 6 2009).
From PM and Broadcasting House
The Woman's Prize, or The Tamer Tamed (c. 1611; published 1647), Act IV, scene 5, line 199.
Degrees: Thought Capsules and Micro Tales (1989)
Clark, Mary (2001). "Index Magazine interview" http://www.indexmagazine.com/interviews/marc_jacobs.shtml indexmagazine.com (accessed April 19, 2007)
On his perfect customer